Once a worldview or explanation takes root in a culture, it becomes both remarkably self-reinforcing and resistant to change, and in turn, organically drives the interpretation of adjacent ideas and phenomena. The narrative of human-caused global climate change has become so widely accepted that it no longer requires a hidden hand. A decentralized nearly unanimous army of true believers police that domain. The culture becomes invested in the falsehood, and prefers censorship to questioning. Likewise “all vaccines are safe and effective”. On and on, you get the point. When we stop valuing independent thought, we build our own mental prison. And as diversity of thought and speech dies, it murders innovation on the way to the grave.