It’d be hard to add to any of that: A society that abandons the minds of their children to adults of evil intent in a concentration camp called schools is doomed.

Donald Trump is of course a leading edge vector of this syndrome. How much truth about anything will you find on his Truth Social website or almost everything he rants about.

So too, and even more so is Elon Musk with his now worse-than-horrible X platform. Facebook has now joined this toxifying club too.

I think you express some good insights here Mamtimin. Yes, we (western society at least) seem to be in a state of “spiritual vertigo, leaving us confused and disoriented”. I agree too that we are overwhelmed with information.

However, I think that the primary cause of our problems lies elsewhere. Most westerners are now, at least functionally, atheists/materialists. I think it is just dawning on people that if atheism is true, that if this universe has just happened into being for no reason, then our lives are ultimately completely meaningless.

In such a universe, gaining more and more information is pointless, all moral claims have no foundation, and any hope that AI can help is just an illusion.

As the number of people who believe that there is no Creator who has made us for some purpose grows, so too will the sense of existential vertigo grow.

DD

Your team has lost, and thank God for that, now the downhill rush towards extinction of the West from the Democrats Idiocy, be gone forever, never to return. All praise to the mighty Orange Man, and may the three Gods of Christianity prevail against the forces of evil draped in rainbow flags and other emblematic symbols of the Devil, including also such Jolly Rogers of destruction as the Palestinian and the quasi First Nation symbolic rags associated with Devil worship and injustice against the majority.

JP
Tens of millions of dreadfully sane Christian true believers who believe in the presumed creator-god voted for Donald Trump who was sometimes called Orange Jesus.
The creator-god idea is the extension/expression of a childish, even infantile mis-understanding of the nature of Reality.

You miss the point Daffy.

Whatever you may think of Trump or believers in a creator god, it remains the case that if the universe just happened unintentionally into being, then our lives are ultimately meaningless.

Equally, all moral claims would lack foundation.

As more people recognise this, it is not surprising that they experience existential vertigo.