It's called mass psychosis.

Ah the good old Futurological Congress by Lem. Read it, the movie is a mess.

The vaccine was really just a sedative; they kidnapped you and plugged in you to the matricksssssssss

In 2010 they tried to create micro black holes, since this hat not worked the probability for extra dimensions is somewhat limited, at least that is what we believe. But maybe something went wrong back in 2010.

In a very real sense we do li:e in a fantasy world, where the pervasive oppositional disingenuous bullshit and disinformation have poisoned us, and we trust the shit we made up to process stuff as high level abstractions without necessarily tying them back to anything remotely near bare-metal material reality.

And tyen when people find exploits in tjose abstractions, there is no recourse, nothing to check them against.

Reality is happening, but we do not comprehend it.

Edit: if you want fiction about this, the book 'echopraxia' has this running through it, or the film 'eddington' which is entirely about this.

This was going on under the surface all this time, growing and growing, people just did not see it as a valid concern thinking "crazy people" or "stupid people" will "come around eventually". They did not expect there'd be enough of them to pull the carriage backwards.

Everything that’s happened in the since around 1900 is an extreme outlier in the history of humanity. Nothing’s been normal.

2016 as a gen z i reamber the xanax epidemic of the time and it was bad

This isnt a shitpost, this a fact. In 2020 everyone had little choice but to stay online, on social media, and got absolutely brain fucked by extreme opinions being forced on to them by whatever side the algorithms threw at them. Almost no one on line is in the middle, or if they are, they are very quiet. Everyone is extreme right or extreme left and they attach that to anything and everything. Music, movies, tv shows, comics, youtubers, etc etc etc.

I mean, for example, why cant any woman be allowed to voice her opinion on bathrooms without being called a nazi or woke? Why isnt this subject just a conversation? Why is at the forefront of seemingly everything? And why is being for or against linked to woke and nazi? Are why are we all seemingly OK with banning people from spaces just because they have a different opinion?

And have you noticed that any example used to shit on the left or right are utterly ridiculous extremes? Or the sex wars, they are huge right now. Self professed alpha males morons looking for virgins that will cook and clean vs onlyfans whores who wont stop being gang banged in public toilets for anything less than 6ft3, 6 figure incomes, and 6 pack abs. These people are all insane, but for some reason they keep getting pushed as the average or the majority of people dating. All women are misandrist, all men are misogynist, and theres extreme fuckwit doing fuck wit things on a youtube video to prove it...

Dont like Star Wars these days, chaps? No, you see, its not cos its shit. Its cos youre racist and sexist, dont you know? You need to cut that shit out, and watch the masterpieces coming out of disney+ right now!!!!

Scared to walk home alone at night? Well, thats because theres men on every corner waiting to rape you... Dont think all men should have a curfew? I mean, Sally met that one guy who turned out to be into playing warhammer on Saturday nights with his friends. Its basically the same rape...

Extremism in everything, and theres an easily clickable buzzword for anyone that you dont like, so that others rally to your cause.

The whole fracking world needs to drink a nice big tall glass of calm the fuck down.

I think it was always fucked. They just hid it better, and many people pretended not to see.