You make an excellent point, there's a major oversight in my original post. The distortion lens of media and social media is a thing. The real world and its pe

You make an excellent point, there's a major oversight in my original post. The distortion lens of media and social media is a thing. The real world and its people are vastly different from what one might read online. Yet an increasing amount of people barely interact with the real world and real people, hence they internalize the doom and gloom as if it is reality.