Over time, we humans have become ever more connected. More and more people recognize the observation that all is connected: where we used to only be able to connect physically, recent discoveries like radio, and internet have allowed us to connect to others over half a world away. And this is only the birth of even more awesome things!
But we also see a rise in psychological ailments. That does not necessarily mean people are seeing things that are not there, just that they see things whose time has not yet come. Speaking up too early often gets you put in the mental illness box, as I can vouch from literal experience. Being diagnosed bipolar was the way my world assigned me the madness label. But my view on life was never bipolar, and no hereditary connection could be found in my ancestry.
Instead, my condition was a result of world wide web overload, being the nerd that I was (and still am). I noticed a pattern in that chaos, of independent, sovereign entities, working towards the good of mankind. And believing that that day was the very day I would become part of that new reality, was the very day I did things that got me called bipolar. Instead though, I was always pronoid instead of paranoid, and just trying to collapse too many observations towards my desires, rather than just observing and letting them go...
