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...As society continued to embrace institutions such as fantasy sports and reality television and we drifted further and further away from a truth-based existence, it was only a matter of time that we would start creating our own, made-up world, a world where presidential candidates drink human blood and the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. It was a year when men and women became absorbed by news that wasn’t true; that all pretense of accuracy and accountability was abandoned; and from Oregon wildlife refuges to D.C. pizzerias, people decided that they themselves would decide what was right and what was wrong, all loosely based on what some Russian dropout was posting to Instagram. Predictably, chaos ensued as normally rational people went off the deep end and threatened to derail our democracy and society itself. It got so bad that the nation’s population of toddlers banded together and cumulatively wailed, “Won’t someone think of the adu…