Excellent post! I am new to the steemit community as of today and what a great first post to click through! Very relevant subject matter, especially considering the frequency of unprecedented events in this age of advanced communications technology. Misinformation seems to nourish an engineered normalcy bias in the collective perception of the general public, and the maintenence of such a bias requires the constant feed of more misinformation. False narratives become norms in this scenario and what appears to be one consequence is a society which loses its ability to think critically. I majored in philosophy and the most valuable skill garnered from philosophical training is the ability to make clearly defined distinctions. Thats all critical thinking really is: making distinctions. I find that there are many young people today who do not exercise their reason in this way. It is as if a form of conditioning has taken place which renders the subject unable to even consider the possibility of x, y, or z. When distinctions are no longer made, questions are no longer asked, and narratives no longer investigated...falsehood is the norm and misinformation abounds. Great piece. Thank you.