Consider storytales told around the campfire. Are they true? Before the internet and journalists, you had to decide for yourself.

We are rebounding from a historically brief period of high trust to something more historically normal.

The difference between campfire stories and the world we live in is our world has journalists who fact check and surface falsehoods. Sure, there’s a delay. The work takes a moment. So we hang out while experts do the debunking for us.

That’s a pretty good state of affairs.