Just thinking about how we're in a cultural period of examining how ideas enter into people's heads. Inception, R*d p*lls, Disco Elysium, meme culture, and yesterday I just played a game called Griftlands where you can play a card game to 'incept' ideas into people's heads.

Westworld arguably falls into this category of media as well. So do a few other less successful pieces of media. I think we're hitting a real moment where our entertainment is trying to handle what it means to 'manufacture consent' when it is happening all around us.

What a lot of these get right is how it just makes all communication so much harder & more draining b/c you never know who has decided to take some shitty piece of misinformation, make it a part of their core worldview, and is going to talk about it like it is just a fact of life

Then there's a huge cognitive load to just recognize what's happening, that someone's normalization of some shitty dumb internet post is sneaking into your brain and you have to put energy into debunking it for them or setting up a firewall where you just have to block that out.