I am sorry if I am beating an old drum,

but media and communication now and that includes tech stuff like cell phones and social media not just newspapers and tv news media.

Makes us a whole lot more hyperaware of what we know, while simultaneously hyperaware of what we do not know, while before we just knew less. This in turn shatters our myths of what we were taught at an earlier age and we are more aware of ourselves always creating our own history and agency, and we simultaneously feel like a <medium> of people not getting important things for there is not 1 person but 7 billion plus in one space, and different ratios in smaller spaces.

Treason is only when the "King" calls out the treasons and says I know it was you Frodo. Everything before that moment is sparkling betrayal of faith, not following the rules, treachery and so on.

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I do not like this moment either, but we are living in a baroque age, and thus we tell our little "mourning plays." Classical tragedy assumes a redemptive conclusion for even when things go wrong, something re-establishes order and that order is good. "Mourning plays" are more like the twilight zone we are no longer certain of redemption.