The sad thing here is that it is extremely effective and permeates everything. The mainstream media has their talking points and narratives, then a counter culture arrived not to fix this, but to provide their own talking points and narratives.

Every time a family member calls me it's either something they saw on MSM, or something they saw on Twitter/Facebook. Nobody seems to actually educate themselves and have a discussion, it's just talking points. Half the time they can't expand beyond the headlines.

It feels like we're at peak attention media. At least, I hope so.

Yeah. It's all trying win an argument rather than discover any kind of truth.

I find myself dreading talking to my siblings these days. I call up to ask how they are and get a rant about Hunter Biden or whatever the flavour of the day is.

Thanks YouTube and Twitter.

> Yeah. It's all trying win an argument rather than discover any kind of truth.

I suspect this has been the case for the majority of people for the majority of history, unfortunately.

It is definitely a lot worse among my acquaintances these days. I am in my late 50´s. Many people people I know of my generation are addicted to conspiracy theories and spend a lot of their lives thinking about them, following influencers etc. This was not the case for these people in the past.

The one thing a lot of them have in common is a high degree of isolation, presumably leading to a lot of time on the internet.