America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error. It’s a global assault on reason and informed consensus, and corporations and authoritarian bullies like Donald Trump are both architects and benefactors. For decades, academics warned anybody who’d listen
It is terminal. There is no might about it.
It’s been terminal since early 20th century. When all major mass media gave attention to and ran with the Red Scare. Literally ending people’s livelihoods over the simple suspicion that people may have had sympathies towards Russia.