Sensemaking

The ecological crisis, which has always been a fraught affair, with Tree Huggers to the left and "Drill Baby Drillers" to the right, has now schizo-fractured into a million tiny pieces. At this point, it's impossible to tell who stands for what, let alone get to a consensus on fixing things.

Was just listening to some friends, trained as biologists, who host a podcast of their own. Over the past few years, they've been drawn increasingly out of their specific academic field and into the deeper, weirder waters of vaccines and the New World Order. I hadn't heard any of their stuff in a while, so I was curious where their inquiry had been taking them.

This past week, as all eyes turned to Ukraine (and all recently self-anointed Covid experts became overnight European military strategists #becuzcontent), other stuff happened too...

How is it that so many tweets, YouTube comments and that sad sad place where reason goes to die, Telegram are certain? And not just certain. Absolutely certain they're certain!‍ In two words, egregores and schizo-genesis.