You can’t wake the masses up forcibly until the job is (effectively) done, otherwise you get vigilante justice, people in the way of military, and socio-economic breakdown as enemy still active. The “fake normal” we are having to endure keeps the spinning plates of supply chains going just long enough. This feels like “trench warfare in the mind”, with tiny incremental transfers of territory over years, but in the context of unrelenting barbarity and violence.

The arrival of physical discomfort and discontent will wake more people up as they ask questions. So paradoxically the enemy has every incentive to maintain some basic level of fulfilment until they have enough people in their mind and body trap. This makes the awakened look crazy, as the war is so brilliantly hidden by both sides. We still have to shop for food in stores selling poison and denying their staff basic dignity and rights.

This has been a war on the soul and sanity as much as the somatic self.