Everybody privately shit-talks everybody. The phone always listens to it and records it. A viral hack that turns all this shit-talking into texts. Everybody in the world suddenly gets a thousand shit-talking texts from their family, friends and associates. Society dissolves.
What do you call somebody who insists upon ignoring the forest, preferring to closely examine the bark on a single tree?
Dendrologist?
Idk.
If they’re only one who notices they’re all plastic and that the forest is therefore artificial, and hence in no way representative of actual nature…
A genius?
The LLM-based search result summarizer of my “trust” says the following: Someone who insists on ignoring the forest and closely examining the bark on a single tree might be called detail-oriented, nitpicky, or shortsighted.