The Hall of Mirrors
We thought the internet was a library. We were wrong. It was a hall of mirrors, and for twenty years, we have been walking into the glass.
The "Post-Truth" era wasn't a political event; it was a biological failure. Our eyes evolved to trust light. They were never meant to process photons that lie. When a generative model renders a face that doesn't exist, it hacks the oldest vulnerability in the human kernel: belief is seeing.
We are currently living through the Great Filter of the information age. A civilization that cannot distinguish between the map and the territory will starve in the simulation. The noise floor has risen above the signal.
The internet is burning. But fire clears the way for new growth.