People are not becoming inherently dishonest, lazy, or cynical. They are becoming game-theoretically optimal for the environment they have been placed in.
Yes, yes! Negarestani's Cyclonopedia explains in-depth how White War and Hypercamouflage have made the system exist only against (and to create) Jihad. The dissolution of trust plays right into the hypercamouflage of Taqqiya-ist thought by being on a permanent combative posture. This will not end well for either camps; the western world's authorities are devolving further into the death cult of solar immanence and will lead to naught but a societal desert.
Yes, yes! Negarestani's Cyclonopedia explains in-depth how White War and Hypercamouflage have made the system exist only against (and to create) Jihad. The dissolution of trust plays right into the hypercamouflage of Taqqiya-ist thought by being on a permanent combative posture. This will not end well for either camps; the western world's authorities are devolving further into the death cult of solar immanence and will lead to naught but a societal desert.
Haven't read it but it sounds like I need to
Most definitely. It calls itself theory fiction, but it's chilling even if considered an avant garde spy novel