I realized Among Us is training three entire generations to detect deceit and fake information, alongside questioning everything and thinking critically, en masse. One of the best ways to know what to look for is to learn it yourself in trials by fire… and the supermajority of people learning this won’t use it badly. So the few who learn to do it better and will end up outnumbered, supermajorly, by those who learn to do it better and see it better and won’t, and their secrets are out and learned.
The net result is overwhelmingly positive. And even more importantly, this mass education is taking place in the era of fake news and propaganda across the sky, weakening tyranny’s hold on the world at a never before heard of rate.
And that’s why a few lil spacesuit beans are transforming society into a falsehood-aware utopia, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.