>Is it a signal that we've become unmoored from reality, that we'd build a tower to heaven out of actual babble? This is more or less the thesis of Hypernormal

>Is it a signal that we've become unmoored from reality, that we'd build a tower to heaven out of actual babble? This is more or less the thesis of Hypernormalization (link below) - that the intelligentsia and political classes have, instead of contending with the enormous complexity of reality, constructed a kind of facsimile of reality with which to interact with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw