So what happened? - It kind of looks like there's been an advanced virus or something out there that presents a fake reality to people. A massive MITM. It seems like doing this was a thing before the internet; people describe exposure to fake radio stations and such. - It seems the people I bumped into are big on cult-like mind control. - Somebody told me when there's a lot of device compromise it's often a spy agency. Others have experienced that those two don't necessarily line up. Somehow I learned to not investigate the virus. A very strange behavior. Books show how you can train people to do this, but I don't really know why I have this behavior. I have other weird attributes too after this started, psychotic-like symptoms often associated with drugs. The part I found most terrifying was how the people would treat _anybody_ as enslaveable. I wasn't used to this. [it was also confusing to be forcibly controlled by multiple factions in conflict, with no channel to relate to one that i was relating for the other, etc ... parts missing relation here] Huge dissociative disorder! It totally builds a "dissociated identity" in you except instead of an identity it's a clump of learned traumatic behavior modification that work together.