Man, this is the kind of thing I have been trying to tell people. It's unsettling to think about, but I'm like, "look, there are no rules now, it's all a negotiation, the only real laws are the laws of physics and the rules someone selectively enforces under the threat of violence."

It would do us good if we remember this, because this sort of the basic state of nature that most people have lived under most of human history. I'm not saying this is how it should be, but a lot of people are still living in the pearl-clutched "but, that's against the rules!" despite there being basically no real rules for a decade.

When people realize that it's all nonsense, it's going to get weird.

Competence does not require correction.

It is when there is too much stupidity going on that

* Even large number of fairly average people can see it happening...

* large number of fairly average people tries to correct it and overshoots the target, because you know, they are a large number of average people..

The cycle continues...

I won't go into specifics, because read the above.