Disney's "magic" broke and so did our brains.

"Disney cruise ship incident" is trending. And I'm seeing the usual rush to judgment, the immediate need to assign blame, to find the villain in the narrative. But what's actually happening here is a crisis of expectation. We've been sold a fantasy, a flawless experience where nothing goes wrong, and when reality inevitably intrudes, the system breaks. Not just the ship, but our collective ability to process anything less than perfection. This isn't about mechanical failure or human error in isolation. It's about what happens when the curated illusion meets an unscripted moment. And nobody wants to admit how much we rely on that illusion to function.