Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

The oft-missed implication is that whether or not what you say becomes canon says something about *you,* and that's what drives the modern media/fake news/narrative war, not truth-seeking as truth-seeking is understood by people who want to use truth to build new worlds

We'll continue to be offered many frames for "truth" that justify dirty plays in the war, but at the end of the day you can't simultaneously believe that truth is whatever is canon *and* that truth is what allows you to arrange neurons and then atoms into new human capabilities

A conspiracy theorist, if violent, can hurt someone like you or me. But a conspiracy *theory* mostly threatens to hurt a narrative, and thus a narrator. Who will, of course, explain that the theorist is out to kill you.

I think anti-vaccine hysteria is probably unfounded and almost certainly extremely harmful on net. But watch anti-vax become the gun that every academic who has an unpopular hypothesis to kill in whichever field will plant on their target as though that makes any sense at all

tbc, nobody has to say that their academic opponent *is* an anti-vaxxer. They just have to remind you that science is canon, canon is science, and what falls outside kills children

And now there aren't substantiated and unsubstantiated hypotheses, there is only science and pseudoscience. There aren't explanations of varying strength and credibility, there's only the canon truth and the conspiracy theories