It really loses a lot of it's appeal without the context of the age of unfettered materialism in which it was born. At that point in history there was pretty much nobody anywhere who actually cared about, or even noticed, the problems with western economies which are more or less public knowledge these days.
Vitriol is an important substance used in the process. It's also what you expose people to, in order to either destroy them or provoke them to overcome the relentless antagonism and become much stronger versions of themselves.
Check out "the green lion eating the Sun" if you're interested in learning more.
He was the “journalist” who... completely misrepresented the answers he got
I was taught to never talk to journalists, for this exact reason, long before any of this nonsense began. That's just what they do. Even if there's no malicious intent, they rarely actually understand what they're writing about.
You're missing the part where all our foreign adversaries, with full access to the same Internet forums we use, stoke the fires of conflict. That and our own domestic despots who allow such a system to persist, to stifle and confuse any serious criticisms of their own actions. Then of course there are the technocrats who encourage all of the above while they quietly install the systems intended to control humanity. Behind all of it are the false gods who jerk each other off behind closed doors, pretending that they're secretly controlling all the stupid little people bickering with each other, while really they're just insulated from reality by vast quantities of money.
Did I miss anything?
Moving away from that to an explicit, game-rules approach to society has been a disaster.
Well, if you want some idea of why they hate games so much: I was actually the best gamer in the world at one point, and they've been trying to recruit me to help them "gamify" life since them. But instead of buying in to their plans I've been spending my time calling them retarded in increasingly elaborate detail for even attempting such a thing.
I guess the world before now was built upon copying notable individuals. Yet rather than actually being successful at controlling the world as they imagined they had been, the world had routed it's way around their bullshit and found a way to persist in spite of it. Now that they're employing increasingly forceful technologies in an attempt to fix what they consider to be flaws in their plans, they are instead removing everything which used to be keeping them alive despite their insanity.
It's quite sad, and they're not going to stop, since they're already thousands of years invested in their scheming. Best make plans for how you're going to roll with the fall once it all comes to a head.
The problem, as I see it, is that those running society are attempting to "take over" the natural world and replace it with a curated, sanitized, version of reality written by themselves. Because of this, it becomes necessary for them to account for everything which exists in their falsified narrative. So now there is a contrived conflict being presented to the population, to attempt to force people to choose between either accepting every perverse notion under the sun as an open part of society, or to wield the technological powers being created to dictate everyone's lives to an extreme degree. The common thread running through it all being the technocrats/false gods asserting that they WILL take over, and as long as people continue to follow their narratives their plan progresses.
I've got bad news for you dude. It's not serial killers specifically. That's just one of the surest signs that the guy isn't a raging pussy who obsesses over what women do/don't want, and does what they want instead, fuck everyone else.
What are you talking about?