"How did we get here" can be answered in so many different ways.. and we're obviously, whether out of sheer interest, or compulsion at the behest of a perceived culture war, or whatever reason, ardently pursuing studies and activities that shed light on that.
Do you remember being a child and repeating things that you know not to be true, but enforcing a false intuition that it actually may be true, whether through repetition, imagination or, most especially, events like having others bear witness to our saying it and, even better, hearing them repeat it?
Now there seems to be an epidemic of people saying things that can't possibly be true, and no one being able to tell them otherwise.
The manipulation of language through taking on the habit of seeking to commiserate with peers (by those susceptible to modern evolutions of pesky ideologies) was something tolerated by those who wanted to keep peace.
That activity could habituate postmodern thinking and, in turn, indebt the mind to expect that the untrue will be made true in time as social construction adapts to what is right.
Now some of those minds are so indebted that when they see a form of harm take place, it is so unremarkably indistinct compared to everything else that has yet prevented the untrue from becoming true.
The indebtedness is destroying them