Imagine a neurological disease that changed your perceptions in subtle, damaging ways. 

Stubbing your toe would bring pleasure. Rotten meat would taste delicious. Deadly cold would feel comfy. 

Meanwhile, a gentle neck massage would make you feel sick, and fresh food would taste disgusting.

You wouldn’t last long with such a disease. But our society is facing something similar.

The news media, which are supposed to act as a sort of nervous system for the body politic, instead give us misinformation.