We are living in a kind of disinformation dystopia and it is completely of our making.

By “our” I mean the whole world, but if we focus on the US:

1) Our elected officials too often are not held accountable for their own cozying up to the information brokers.
2) Americans are too bored with life now and fill our time with silly made-for-TV dramas.
3) Americans pay money to information brokers to be entertained first and foremost. Education is hard and not loved. E.g., see what happened to so many early cable TV channels like The History Channel that discovered that Americans wanted religion and escapist conspiracies over real history.
4) Education threatens religious institutions and the loss-of-god problem has overridden the desire to discern facts from fantasies.

There is an infestation of magical thinking that is not going away.

And we are beginning to pay the price for it.

I am not one to hawk collapse-real-soon. I do not believe that is how societies like ours work.

Instead we unravel over decades, maybe a century or two.

We just become increasingly incompetent to address the problems before us.