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Colonel : The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.

Rose : Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans.

Colonel : Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims.

Rose : Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing.

Colonel : "Be nice to other people."

Rose : "But beat out the competition!"

Colonel : "You're special." "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."

Rose : But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...

Colonel : You exercise your right to "freedom" and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems.

Rose : Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large.

Colonel : The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right.

Rose : Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth."

Colonel : And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

Inflation might play a part in this. USD is worth half of what it was in the 90s.

One of the dissenting opinions (Sotomayor, I think?) stated that the CDC is allowed to do things like quarantines, and therefore something more benign like an eviction moratorium ought to be allowed too. I found that logic pretty convincing that the Trump-appointed justices were in the wrong. But, right and wrong don't really matter -- just winning.

The abusive tactic known as DARVO begins with downplaying, denying or deflecting. I sure read a lot of those things in this article. I hope the author learns more rhetorical techniques, the one they used here made them come across as abusive.

It's more fair to compare Presidents with George Washington than with their predecessors. I can't imagine George Washington standing in front of a church holding a bible upside-down, or advocating that people ought to put cleaning fluids into their lungs.