Last night I was listening to the AM band and the fables ran over the brim of the cup of fantasy. Not just focused on Hillary, but about anyone with any stature in our public life. Stuff like organized stables of kids for the sexual delectation of the elite, and the elite were not just Libs/Cons Dems/Reps but all over the map.

I think the media is at an inflection point where we are encouraged to believe nothing because everything possible is being reported.

I remember in one of Robert Heinlein's science fiction novels "Stranger in a Strange Land" there was a profession of 'Fair Witness' where someone's ability to relate reality was given professional status. We're already there with web sites such as Snopes and the concept of factchecking which has been used during the recent Presidential debates. There is undoubtedly a competitive profession which I'd call factoid snowballing. Which is to bury the truth in irrelevancy.

We're also going to have to do some kind of digital chain of custody when we pass along information in order to guarantee that a given message isn't 'telephoned' into something it didn't start out to be.

I predict that we're gonna have to teach epistemology to second graders right quick.