'Oh no, there ain't no sanity clause'...The Damned weren't wrong, were they. What's wrong with folk? Wherever you look the threads of reality are being pulled at, unpicked or beginning to unravel. QAnon and kin warp folks minds with weird tales of strange conspiracies, Critical Theories lay siege to provable science with fantasy narratives and a global pandemic can be denied in the face of overwhelming evidence and personal testimony. And that's before we consider the everyday effects of the algorithmic echo chambers, crony politics...crony everything, a polarizing media, and a raft of other destabilizing influences on reality. An anti vaxxer told me that the vaccine is a conspiracy to inject nano crystals into us in order to disconnect us from the Godhead and connect us to the cloud, from where we'll be controlled...they were serious, to them this was real. Inquiries around evidence were met, as so often, with me being told to go educate myself...no evidence though. No, there's never any credible evidence, quantifiable evidence is so passé in our post real world. People have fallen out of love with truth and reality, they've been seduced by sci-fi B movie plots and competing ideological orthodoxies offering whatever...and if you disagree with them, even a soupçon, you're either a fool or their sworn enemy. With reality under attack like this from all quarters, you have wonder where this road will lead us and how long before we arrive. I'll be honest, I'm still quite hoping for the zombie apocalypse, purely as it would be simpler.
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