> How is this unique to TikTok? FTA:"Chinese-owned TikTok" > This smells very election-yearish. Is there a term for the phenomenon whereby when a conversatio

> How is this unique to TikTok? FTA:"Chinese-owned TikTok" > This smells very election-yearish. Is there a term for the phenomenon whereby when a conversation is being had by a group of people, and all participants know that the conversation is non-genuine (the talking points of the various parties are knowingly untruthful), but it hasn't yet been explicitly acknowledged that everyone is telling fibs? I think it's funny that almost everything in the world runs in this general state, but we hardly ever talk about it. And then we whine about how everything is such a mess. Is there anyone other than me out there that wonders about why we do things this way? No known laws of physics force us to do it, and yet we do almost only this (it is mainly a question of the degree to which "we" do it in any given situation, and there are many very obvious patterns of domains/topics where we tend to do it more so than in others). Might there be some other forces in our midst that we are overlooking?