Wow, your words are powerful. As a subcategory of the cognitive dissonance, which you describe, I want to admire your incredible gift with words - but the subject makes that admiration feel inconsequential in comparison to the topic. Your talent is almost too beautiful for the subject. ‘Political underworld’ is a perfect description of where I feel we are trapped. This is a very dark place. I was oddly preparing for it by taking physical steps for my own survival, but the reality is way beyond “survival”. I was thinking more in terms of infrastructure collapse due to a maelstrom of malevolence. But the events you aggregated are putting my soul at survival risk. I will share.