Zeitgeist as Moral Amnesia

Online consensus cultures can erode the very idea of objective moral judgement by replacing individual ethical reasoning with a performative, tribal 'zeitgeist' that prizes ritual conformity and rewards extreme posturing. When that replacement happens, actors become 'mindwiped' parrots whose goal is status within the network rather than any coherent moral aim. — If true, this reframes many public controversies as failures of moral epistemology (how people know what's right) not merely partisan disagreement, with implications for university policy, platform moderation, and civic education.