They are almost a quaint type of madness at this point, and I am merely mentioning the following article (which looks at the matter from one of several possible positions) so that you gain an educated understanding of what things are coming to if we do not all contribute to mass-producing chill pills. We cannot just 'do our own thing and cruise along'. That's what makes it increasingly difficult to continue doing so. A real cyberpunk-ish world isn't as entertaining as in a video game. (And far more bugged.) Again, not meant to start a political argument or anything (because that would go against the very point of this message), just raising awareness about an aspect of our spiritual condition so that we are empowered to not give into Master Fear's recruitments, neither through proactivity nor through terrified passivity. Once some technology or such is out there in the competitive sphere, sooner or later everybody would feel strongly compelled to use it. But that is a recruitment effort. That whole trend is to be rejected. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/08/nato-cognitive-warfare-brain/ (If we can just ignore what personal allegiances the writer might have, we can acknowledge his valuable investigative-journalistic work and take it as an impulse for ourselves.) Maybe mods can keep this open if this remains civil, according to the forum rules. If it doesn't then it would still kinda convey the same message even if it needs to be closed, so it's a win-win. And at least I can say I did my part. I just consider this stuff important enough to urge not to let it go over your head, so to speak. I am someone who has learned from history and understand the repeating patterns that eventually lead to a crisis peak, and then people are the most motivated but the least qualified to solve the problem. Work done early keeps problems manageable. This is even expressed in, for example, Toyota Kaizen production philosophy where when a problem occurs, it is cheaper to stop everything and solve it immediately than to procrastinate and let it branch out and then having to deal with the whole complex of following consequences.