I could similarly ask what happened to journalists? Or the politician that cared about their stated principals.

The reality isn't even that they went away, necessarily. Or that it was all a lie. There were always exceptions and it always took some level of good faith between our different institutions to keep them working well. At some point, that good faith interaction got hijacked and it has quickly spread as a rot to all things.

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tennfown 2 days ago | parent [-]

> I could similarly ask what happened to journalists? Or the politician that cared about their stated principals.

It’s all the same. What happened is that principals became a liability and lying became a virtue.

	▲	taeric 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Principals were always a liability. It is literally a key point in countless interactions. Is why "holding hostage" works. They are literally playing against a principal. Similarly, lying has never been a virtue. But, joining people to your lie has always been a powerful way of gaining support. I honestly don't know when or how things changed. My gut is, oddly, that the stakes all just changed. Used to be, you could literally retire to a homestead and you were living on your own. That just does not exist at all in the same way, anymore.