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.
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