Yeah, I always wonder: is the tail wagging the dog or vice versa? Like maaaybe society is going through some organic disruption at the moment, but it’s so easy to foment a sense of crisis through mass media that it seems more likely it’s just being done to serve an agenda (start a war, consolidate power, disrupt opposition, extract wealth upwards, etc…).

My measuring stick is how “on message” the people reporting it tend to be. A real disaster or crisis is chaotic, and authentic reporting about it tends to be too (think about mixed messaging during the early days of COVID). If something happens and there’s a very clear narrative from the start about who the good guys and bad guys are, especially if it is trying to make me scared or mad, I just assume I’m being manipulated.

Poland is an ethnically homogeneous and rather racist country, even more so than Germany, which is saying something. People from such an environment come to the big city and are afraid of being attacked every time they encounter a small group of brown migrants on the street. Migration flows will only increase in the future. Get used to it and make sure you integrate these people. Just because they eat flatbread instead of dumplings doesn't mean they can't contribute to GDP or pay taxes.

I’m not here to agree or disagree — I can only share my own experiences.