I don’t think that’s the case. The relatively small cabal of people driving this stuff are all pretty weird people who live atypical lives and are hella smart,

I don’t think that’s the case. The relatively small cabal of people driving this stuff are all pretty weird people who live atypical lives and are hella smart, aware, and unconstrained. They don’t care about the wake of destruction, and likely believe that it is virtuous to bring it on.