It is that tension between tradition and renewal, writ large. Even if the old is crumbing under a wave of corruption, on the assumption there is no alternative and the new will always be bought out.

Like the Fed thinking it has beaten economic cycles by simply lowering interest rates anytime the indicators/markets go down for a few weeks, setting up a situation for the mother of all crashes, so too is this monumental effort to control the narrative setting up the mother of all reality checks.

Sooner or later the addict has a heart attack it doesn't recover from.