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>Until recently, admitting you were very sad was a surefire way to become ostracised and only recently has it become studied and the people have started coming forward, it is not unusual that it is a higher figure now.
Perfect, then we can dispense with the anecdotes.

>Please tell me about how the machine works according to you.
Generally?
For persuasion?

Soft?
Blue light flickering in tech devices, propaganda against sun exposure and low-deuterium foods, and various hypnotic techniques that bypass the neo-cortex into the mammalian and reptile brains.

Hard?
For 100+ years the Federal Reserve has been slowly taking the wealth away from the common man and funneling it into the Central Banking Cartel. They are further tightening their grasp by creating the framework for a CBDC type of currency that can be turned off and on at the bank's discretion. They've already dabbled in this with "de-banking."

Usual hard?
Failing that, there is always the violence of the state that has been omnipresent.