Oops, just nicked your earnings down a penny! I'll fix that right up. A last shout-out to a deadly poet. I am confident hope lies within. With the help of an ancient tactician and philosopher, we may yet regerminate the vacuum of evacuated space between our modern temples. Walking dead? No, individual ecosystems and cycles of growth, mirrored in nature and created in the image of God.

Know the enemy and know yourself, in a hundred battles you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself your chances of winning and losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself you are sure to be defeated in every battle.

--- Sun Tzu

The core reason, I believe, behind the insane intensity and neverending chaos is this simple - it's a race to weaken and permanently disable our natural bio-defenses, before enough wake up to the miraculous wonders each and every human represents, and their primary role on this realm - reproduction. If a critical mass were to comprehend their significance and understand the grand design of their own anatomy and physiology - that would be check, game and match, mate!

Cheers!