>>11754909To broaden this topic:
It's a lot easier to create an attractive Narrative than an attractive truth.
In a narrative you can inject certainty, you can inject ideology, you can inject a nanny that holds your hand and protects you from the unforgiving nature of reality.
>We face the threat of [Scary headlines], we know everything about it because [Central authoritarian expert figures], we just need to band together and do [unreaonably expensive virtue signaling not realistically attainable at the scale suggested] and only then will peace settle on the earth and utopia will be reached.It is a religious narrative, and it have a religious following.