8) Again, this isn’t small stuff. The level of insanity that society had gotten to was at the level of Orwell’s 2+2=5. People were denying that XX != XY. If they can lie about that, if they can convince themselves they are telling the truth even as they lie, they can lie about anything. And yes, many are still lying about it, but they have lost the high ground of Twitter. So they are losing ground.
10) The process is messy, too. Solzhenitsyn wrote about this. As breathing and consciousness return, as the nervous system of the body politic comes back online, as cells talk to each other freely again, it’s like a foot waking up after a long time asleep. It might stumble a bit, as it moves for the first time in a while.
11) And that’s why many of the new voices you hear are saying seemingly obvious things, like “wokeness is bad” or “XX != XY”. It takes a while for a decentralized system to synchronize, so people start with basic broadcast messages (again, of ideas that were unspeakable even a year ago).