I don't remember if I actually went through with saying this the last time the topic came up about half a year ago, but, in case you hadn't already been aware of this way of connecting some of those dots: there's a certain development already halfway off the ground, which combines elements of capital-intensive material mechanicality with dreamlike readiness to produce illusions and grave systemic challenges in maintaining grounded meaningfulness, and which also might become a means by which dreamlike novelty, incoherence, and wishes could all flow through into material manifestation. And a number of observers close to this development are expecting it to be epochal, somewhere in the range of "comparable to the industrial revolution", "comparable to the oxygen catastrophe", and "comparable to the emergence of life".

I don't know, maybe you don't like hearing about that, but that observation seems like an important starting-point to include in speculation. I know you're expecting the whole phenomenon to blow itself up and choke itself off in a Plutonian way, but what if that still leaves a Minervan remnant?

For my part, if I knew that the development wasn't going to get any farther than Piscean dreamlikeness, so that it would not extend also to include Mercurial precise cunning, planning, and strategizing, or Solar coherently focused intention -- at least, that it wouldn't do so other than in net-benefic ways, anyway -- then that would be a big load off my mind. (It would also mean you had been right, at least as regarded what ended up happening in practice.)