Jokes about fascism aside, you can tell that our social climate is in a very unhealthy and unstable spot when something that was previously a community staple h

Jokes about fascism aside, you can tell that our social climate is in a very unhealthy and unstable spot when something that was previously a community staple has been relegated to the outskirts and can be attacked with not only impunity from criticism but cheers from the supporters. Knowledge and truth itself are being eroded; on the one hand, very intentionally and precipitously by politicians and corporations enacting authoritarianism for power, and in a more insidious way by ChatGPT and its ilk which can convince you of hallucinations as easily as fact. When I was young 2 decades ago, I already perceived we had peaked, so it's interesting to watch how clear signs of it are becoming everyday news