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Originally Posted by Astromancer
One particular urban legend that corrodes any society afflicted with it is the myth that all politicians are equally corrupt and phoney. It slowly kills democracies and secures the rule of dictatorships.
To what extend is toxic cynicism present in Transhuman Space?
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All politics is saturated with memetic carriers a.k.a fake news, because someone somewhere will find benefit in supporting or discrediting any given cause, sometimes by doing the supporting badly so as to discredit it by association with their lower budget counterparts in manipulation.
Uncurated websites become widely mocked as unreliable sources of information, but curated ones are mocked for their bias. Memetic filters become increasingly popular with some people but are declared as useless or even tools of brainwashing because they don't work correctly when blocked from opposing ideological feeds.
Disbelief becomes an intellectual form of anti-vaxing, with necessary and proper journalism like sourced quotes and rebuttals being listed as if they were presenting a platform for hatespeech with only incidental balance.