I wonder if there's a connection between the fact that Hollywood stopped being able to tell coherent stories and then a few years later the State Department, CIA, and media stopped being able to tell coherent stories.

— scientism (@mr_scientism) April 9, 2020

I think so. Dominant ideologies become unable to deal with the existing milieu. Thus, the customary stories have no possibility of making sense as the entire sociocultural environment in which those narratives meant something has evaporated.

That’s the state we’re in now.