Politics has so fundamentally deranged our society.

I'm dismayed by the conspiracy theorizing about the ship-Bridge collision. It shows how contemporary politics has so fundamentally deranged our society.

Either people sincerely believe that everything bad that happens is actually fully in human control, therefore the harm is purposefully caused, or they don't but believe (probably rightly) that pretending so will get clicks. I assume some of both.

The idea that shit happens, humans are imperfect and machinery breaks, needs to remain a fundamental concept in our national vocabulary.