Well-known economist David Stockman sounds a lot like Patrick Wood in Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation: "Today’s great threat to capitalist prosperity, personal liberty and constitutional government as we have known it is not Marxism, socialism or any other variant of traditional left-wing ideology." Scientism is the supporting philosophy of both Technocracy and Transhumanism.
From Verizon to Nike, corporate giants are embracing the Metaverse as a place to hock their wares. The idea of separating people from reality makes it much easier to manipulate them into making purchases that they otherwise might not have made. The Metaverse is the height of social isolation and data mining, both of which contribute to Mass Formation.
In 1938, Technocracy defined itself as "The Science of Social Engineering". This professor of clinical psychology in Belgium has revealed the four key elements of "mass formation" that cause people to disconnect from reality. The Great Panic of 2020-2022 shows that all four have been realized with predictable outcomes.