Build a good enough echo chamber and you won't know you're toast before it's too late.

Such a wonderful species we are... not. Things can get really nasty when someone starts exploiting beliefs and gains some sort of power. And then, the blame game begins. Unfortunately it regularly happens.

Good point. The metaphors we use have obviously some limits. In the case of the "sinking ship" when used for software it doesn't quite work as there's no bottom...