Thank you oh so very much for your insights, dearest sister in Christ!
Indeed. Unfortunately, this pathology seems to be gathering steam....
I almost piled on with a bunch of selections from Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities, which gives many examples of the type of spiritual sickness pioneered and exemplified by Bakunin. Bakunin was a prophet of his age; from him one goes in a straight line to Lenin and Stalin. One imagines such predators cannot exist unless the spiritual condition of their intended victims is utterly depleted....
Thank you ever so much for writing, dearest sister in Christ!