Are political decisions more myth-based than they used to be? If so, what might be causing this dangerous trend? I can think of two stories. One is that political systems are becoming so complicated that it's both more difficult and more boring to observe political reality, so fewer people are doing it.
A scarier possibility is that we are losing the skill of reality-based thinking, because we have fewer opportunities to practice it. If you're deciding which breakfast cereal to buy, it doesn't matter if you use myth-based thinking, because nothing bad will happen either way. More and more of our decisions are like that, partly because of well-meaning regulations that protect us from bad decisions, and partly because big control systems are making more of the decisions that really matter.
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For the first possibility, society as more complex and boring, compare with analysis of "legibility," (here is a good place to start noodling around).
For the second possibility, compare with Kurt Andersen.
So I believe both possibilities are correct. I think they are right now highly mutually reinforcing. One question is whether they had to go together?
