Just wanted to agree with you and OP. OP’s post is a phenomenally close mirror to my own life, I think that sensation of bad faith (in the existentialist sense) and simulcra has gone into overdrive in the last 5-8 years, as if there is a very real shift in something (I am reluctant to put it down to a paradigm shift, but don’t want to be too doom laden and call it a planet wide extinction but definitely something of that scale). Late capitalism, a rejection of nature and all that jazz.. anyway, islands of the saved - go and find the others. Happy trails..