Language and rhetoric are recognized as literal weapons that cause delusion and institutional paralysis, requiring quarantine and treatment protocols for those 'infected' by persuasive speech acts.
Directly models disinformation-as-contagion, the 'infodemic' concept, and whether societies need institutional defenses against persuasion technologies as potent as biological weapons.
Domains: Communication and Information TechnologyGovernance and Political SystemsSocial Engineering and Psychology
Scenario Types: Satire / Social commentaryWarning / Self-preventing prophecy
Outcomes: CautionaryDystopian
Tags: rhetoric-weapondisinformationspeech-pathologyinstitutional-paralysis