You are some 2-3 km in the air. There's nothing to hold on to. You are sitting on a piece of cloth that is barely large enough to accommodate you. No railings, no seatbelts, nothing to hold on to or stop you from falling to your death if the carpet gets into turbulences or a strong gust of wind makes you lose your balance. And let's not forget that most depictions of magic carpet flights have the carpet move very erratically because they have a mind of their own.

Especially when it comes to business. I just got off of a meeting with a company that focuses on “monetizing the user experience journey” and the amount of jargon that was used just left me yearning to go tend a field instead.

The internet runs on ads.

Ad companies pay for all the “free” popular social media we use. Ad companies dictate to social media what their clients want their ads to be associated with, not associated with, and drive media of all kinds to push inflammatory and click-bait content that drives engagement and views. It’s why you indirectly can’t swear, talk about suicide, drugs, death, or violence. Sure, you technically can unless ToS prohibits it, but if companies tell their ad hosts they don’t want to be associated with someone talking about guns, the content discussing guns gets fewer ads, fewer ads = less revenue, low-revenue gets pushed to the bottom.

So lowbrow political rage bait, science denialism, and fake conspiracies drives people to interact and then gets pushed to the top because it gets ad revenue. Content that delves into critical thought and requires introspection or contemplation languishes.

Ads are destroying society because stupid and rage sells views.

Usually refering to works of fiction, movies, TV etc.

But I think it's a much larger phenomenon. It has esaped fiction, entered real life and politics. It drives a lot of people these days to stick with bad narratives instead of facts and, yes, truth.

Meaning: they're willing to swallow tons of contradictions, plot holes etc. because they want to be convinced by what they're seeing or being told. That enables certain public people to tell them very flimsy stories.

This is not purely about people choosing bad input because it suits them. It's not only about being lied to and believing those lies. It's about being lied to badly and still not letting go of the narrative. Wanting to take it for real so badly.

edit: I'm beginning to realize that people who don't know or haven't known suspension of disbelief will try to explain it with something similar that they're more familiar with.
And it is very similar to things we see happening in so-called political discourse these days, esp. in the USA.
But many have known this since before Trump1.0, see e.g. TVTropes and Wikipedia.

Yes, there's DNA and other pieces of evidence. This is just a real dumb thought I had.

To go deeper: some animals act curiously, others with fear, but only a few of them understand what the mirror does and use it to inspect themselves.

Same as an actual dream

I implore Mr Anthony Albanese to use this opportunity to annex new Zealand. The Australian economy NEEDS those sheep.

Just can’t fit the rest.

The reason of course is money apparently defines what is "good".