If you say that personal anecdotes are welcome and you seek emotional self-reliance, I have something to share I guess.

Adults can have immersive imaginary companions in a similar way that children sometimes do.

If you spend time on interacting with an imaginary character, two qualities can emerge from this:

• you learn how to think from perspective of this character without putting effort into that. This makes the experience of imaginary companions “talking back” to people.
• you cultivate a relationship with that character that’s like relationship with other people.

There are some internet communities practicing it. You might have heard about tulpas, soulbonds or daemons. Some kids and some writers experience it too, some scientific research mentions “illusion of independent agency”.

I have been practicing it myself for over a decade and can say that I believe that it had a positive impact overall and only positive impact after I unlearned popular tulpamancy and started approaching my inner relationships with more dialectical-materialist mindset.

It will wither away with:

1. Improving material conditions of people who won’t need it as a coping mechanism anymore.
2. There are alternative cultural hubs in rural areas.
3. Alternative, secular forms of socially accepted fantasizing get popular.

I’m quite invested in the last point myself, actually. There are communities of adults having imaginary friends who are just imaginary friends.

Trump’s presidency is a materialization of Yankee elites panicking. USA is going to lose a hegemony it achieved after USSR collapsed and Trump is making desperate moves trying to stop it. And the ruling class (the billionaires) support it in general.

I’m strongly against death penalty when it comes to crimes of individual against individual.

I am for death penalty when it comes to crimes of influential individual against masses though.

A murderer or rapist who ruined one life doesn’t deserve death penalty. A corrupt politician who ruined countless lives cooperating with the billionaires does.

If states isolated their network infrastructure from other states, the essence of international network would be lost.

Each country would have their own intranet, like Kwangmyong in the DPRK.