re: clarity of mind and the Brilliant, mate! Sounds very accurate to me.
Noise, hype, babble, canned laughter, canned tears, loud, sense-killing noise, sense-killing nonsense flooding us from all directions. The good has metamorphosed into bad, the ugly into beautiful, honour of blood into blood thirst.
But it's not the electronics, not the machines but the humans behind them. Certain, powerful, empire-seeking humans behind them.
