In quickly reviewing the prepare4contact daily synopsis of messages
I get usually in the mornings, I came across something concerning
Eric Trist, past chairman of the Tavistock Institute in the early
1960s, about his theory of social turbulance from work originally
done for the then Club of Rome, I believe it was. At any rate, the
quote offered:

"The final and most disrupted state of society is termed
disassociation, in which the individual becomes the entirety of
society for himself, and is isolated from other members of the group.
The dominant culture of the society becomes fantasy and
superstition,"

indeed pretty much articulates the state of mind of people in
Western societies today. This is a phenomenon we understand today
as "induced solipsism." Indeed, people today tend to not believe
anything unless it is available to their senses; it is this that has
become a viable avenue to the molding and redirection of public
perceptions and opinion molding that is so prevalent in our society
today. Little wonder then that politicians do nothing unless backed
by a stack of opinion polls! It is also the basis for the erosion of
our individual liberties and an extremely potent tool, nee, weapon
in exopolitical discourse. Populus, beware. Even your own opinions
may be suspect, as none of us could trust one another, let alone the
sources of information from which we form our views. The last two
statement in the snip scares hell out of me:

"it is why the people on this planet can be genocided in mass numbers
without much of a fight."

And, "it is why humans act more like cattle than a higher life
form."

What raises the hair in back of the neck is that there is a larger
grain of truth than we ourselves today are willing to grant to these
statement.