RipSawyer, you used the word “absurd.” That is exactly what it is. In fact, I believe historians in a rational future will refer to this as the “Era of Absurdity.”
I hope you are right but I just turned 71, what chance is there that I will live long enough to see a rational future?
I only plan to live to be 198 or 199.
This is the age of the death of reason.
I used to use that as a tagline.
It’s truer now than it was ten years ago.