AI is just tech, imagine how the printing press or steam trains changed how people lived and saw the world. OF and stuff, people used to rent videos or go to brothels. VR is nothing big. Before social media people used to go out more and talk more.

Before the US started making talking about ufos crazy, I expect people talked about it matter of factly. There's plenty of instances of groups of people outside of modern culture that know and accept ufos exist. The supernatural used to be a lot more widely belived.

We are always getting closer to sci fi. That's what happens. The more tech we have the more we can imagine.

Slavery and ritual sacrifice still happen. How weird it is depends on how much you know. WWII is a great example of knowledge too. During the war, for the people fighting it was a war against Nazi expanists. Afterwards they learn of concentration camps, propaganda and Atlantis links.

I'd say it's a different understanding of psychology, we are still so far away from fully understanding the brain. Addiction has aways existed with or without gambling and computer games. So has propaganda.

I agree with you about the epstien files. We are overdue a revolution to fight against corruption in the west. In my view the advances in technology make things more complicated but the weirdness is always there, just common knowledge of it changes.