I saw something from the top of the world that greatly shook my faith in society. Everyone was copying everyone else, but almost none of them even seemed to understand what they were actually copying. Every time people copied they came away with less than they started with, by necessity.
This drove my scientific inquiry into our world and how it came to be as it is today, and perhaps around a week ago I may finally have found my smoking gun. From what I've read, wild apes are either right or left handed, with a roughly equal ratio of each. However, the very first tool making civilization was apparently almost exclusively right handed. This suggests to me that they were copying the tool making/use techniques the very same way that I see people copying each other today, and as a result a very sizable chunk of the population learned to work with their non-dominant hand and thus lost a degree of their natural talent.
Repeat that mistake over and over for many thousands of years and we find ourselves here, witnessing society collapsing under the weight of too many cut corners. This is the root of the reason that I've made one of my most important, and most common, statements here regarding the importance of actually going out into the real world and recognizing the existence of reality. Without grounding yourself, you're setting yourself up of a catastrophic collapse.