2) Is it possible for an egregor to end up "committing suicide" for lack of a better way of putting things, and dragging those who are influenced by it towards their doom? It seems like sanctioning Russia, alienating India and China, forcing untested mRNA vaccines on people, and a string of other bad decisions make a lot more sense if what's happening is Western Civilization trying to go out with a bang, but being unable to admit to itself that this is what's happening.

More broadly, a lot of the weirdness since the end of the 1970s makes a lot of sense if it's essentially a larger scale version of the kind of person decides to take advantage of an opportunity to wallow in excess and destroy their own future, because they've decided (subconsciously, in many cases) that when the consequences come, they'll just end their life.