the very serous problem is that so much of our world is built on constructs, such as the easter bunny, and money, both following internaly consistant(but arbitrary) rules, but having no natural indipendent reality with which to verify them from, so without any clear definition of what reality consists of, the fallback position for many people is to treat "new" information as a loyalty test, much of the current news is framed as a literal loyalty test, so?, what does anybody expect?