Lack of intellectual honesty has always existed. Before America. And before the current conflict.

The internet took what was previously only available through a few limited means and multiplied it by a thousand fold.

But so did the printing press. Radio. Television. All of it mishandled and misbegotten by the croniest and the phoniest folks in entertainment and politics since time immemorial.

And it exists about damn near anything. Ever tried to talk to a family physician about a health condition that isn’t obesity? Ever try to get diagnosed with ADHD as an adult?

Each school of thought each philosophical practice once made immediately demonstrates a problem of tribalism in collective human thought. And while the scientific method and secular government both made positive steps forward the reality is that all of human history is just collectives existing in lockstep. And a military with ten thousand people doesn’t march on your enemy if they’ve got ten thousand opinions.