consider

[magicsoap]

It's not reality...it's just the consensus. And that consensus is increasingly under dispute.

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the question is

[shamrox0]

was there ever that much of a consensus?

Re: the question is

[magicsoap]

Probably - when people were more credulous, less questioning, more survival-oriented. We live in a post-post-post-post modern world, and I think that fewer people than ever even have an internally coherent reality (not to say that's a BAD thing - it's just a...thing).