we are reaching the cognitive breakage point where the intensity of belief required to sustain the hallucinatory universes many people have occupied simply cannot stand up to any more collisions with reality.

the magnitude and implausibility of dogma required to protect a false world view starts to rise in an exponential fashion.

such a rise rapidly overwhelms people, seemingly out of nowhere because the last 2 doublings are 75% of the cognitive burden and so you go from "barely holding it together" to "wildly, ostentatiously out of control" all at once.

buckle up, you're going to see a lot of this.

for a great many people who have been isolated in a great many echo chambers, the bumpy part of re-entry to reality is starting and the self appointed "moral majority" coming to terms with the fact that it was never either of those things is going to cause mass scale breakage.

you're going to see this kind of attack, threat, vandalism, and rage because it's the only outlet left to externally validated zealots whose external referents have long been fantasies.

wish i had better news, but it's likely to get worse before it gets better.

EDWARD DOWD