Consensus Reality
"There is one world in common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep each turns away into a world of his own."
– Heraclitus, 2500 years ago
The idea of consensus reality is that amongst the general populace there is a shared sense of facts. Theoretically, to prove its existence, one could survey a populace on specific topics and see where people agree. These agreements, amalgamated, would make the consensus reality which would serve as a unifying point of reference for society. Pre-internet, the main sources of information were sparse, which led to a larger amalagmation of consensus reality. However, as the ubiquity of the internet evolve and news sources became more individualised though algorithmic serving of bespoke information, consensus reality has been slowly shattered into smaller and smaller subsets.