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Prophetosis (n.): a media/online and/or social-media-amplified condition where everyone is [incentivised] to speak like an original source—certain, absolute, “in the know”—and where credibility is performed more than proven.

The algorithm doesn’t reward careful:
It rewards fast;
It rewards attention;
It rewards clicks.

Prophetosis originates from a concept defined by Terrence McKenna in the [80s] and early 1990s as: 'hyper-novelty'. Applying this term in this particular context of prophetosis is to be determined on: the newest claim, the hottest take, the stylish persuasion, the sharpest certainty—whether it’s accurate or not.

Whole populations quietly shift from:
citizens → audiences;
and;

thinkers → followers.

Not because people are foolish, but because the [environment] they entered is designed to make certainty contagious.

The result looks like [information] disorder:
- misinformation (wrong, but believed)
- disinformation (wrong, and pushed deliberately)
- malinformation (true, but weaponised)

And therefore prophetosis is the symptom cluster:

- [Overconfidence] dressed up as authority
- Hot takes replacing evidence
- Identity signalling replacing curiosity
- “Trust me” replacing “Here’s how I know”

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