The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.