In the current digital, media-saturated age, there is a growing confusion between reality and unreality. This is seen through the constant conflict between science and pseudoscience, between facts and non-facts. Though this conflict has existed throughout history, there is a major historical shift occurring in the present digital age as there is now a greater emphasis on the unreality than on the reality. This has impacted the way communities form and operate and, significantly, is pulling these communities farther apart. This paper will examine this shift through three aspects of culture: the mythological, the ideological, and the psychological.
