I don't know about all that but I do know AI has reduced people's ability to think . The other day when I brought up the third temple thread is because if you believe YouTube it is already being built. Of course that thread went over about like all I start does.
I’d venture to say social media has changed and guides people to think in certain ways. Redirects reality and it’s easily done. For others they check out and remove themselves. Either way the ones manipulating win.
Obama did it in his second run and Trump used the same tactics to beat Hilary. The hardliners are set so the battle is for the middle. There’s no central command guiding this. It’s subtle manipulation that leads in certain directions that are dependent on known human behavior