The core derangement of the current zeitgeist is the bravest truth tellers* are the most marginalized people, conflated with fringe conspiracy theorist wingnuts. Perhaps it is a result of "digital hallucinations" filter bubble reality bifurcation such that there is essentially no apparent common context or stable community with which to discover and relate to other people, and secondly, the unreasonable simultaneous apparent widening of digital community participation freedoms, with declines in locality connected in the real world and declines in purchasing power and wealth for most. (A good fraction on HN didn't experience the struggle of the downward leg of the K-shaped recovery, but I imagine some of us did.) Compounded also by a widespread lack of reading books and long-form articles.

* Varoufakis, Chomsky, Hedges, Assange, Snowden ...

EDIT: More examples of "...": Yousafzai, Thunberg, Navalny.