The fundamental purpose of all forms of unreality is to provide an illusion of control. If people cannot control the realities with which they are faces, then they will invent unrealities over which they can maintain the illusion of control. There is currently a global drug problem, and particularly in the United States of America. Fentanyl is a narcotic used to treat severe pain, and it can cause life-threatening respiratory distressed when taken in high doses or when combined with other substances, and also has a high risk of dependency. Fentanyl is now being laces into Norco pills and sold on the streets. Norco is a powerful narcotic used to treat pain, and also can cause life-threatening respiratory distress when taken in high doses or when combined with other substances. Also has a high risk of dependency. In the Sacramento region alone, there have been 29 cases of people overdosing in Norcos laced with Fentanyl, and 7 people have died so far. Sacramento County and El Dorado County Sheriff’s Offices are assisting the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration with a regional investigation and warning people not to take the drugs, if they have not been prescribed, because they could kill you.  

With all the money that is spent on drug enforcement, U.S. officials are only able to seize on the average ten percent of the drugs entering the country. What is particularly disheartening is that even if the U.S. were to increase substantially its efforts, it might stop an additional ten percent of illegal drugs. And stopping an additional ten percent may only make the problem get worse. One solves the original problem, as it were, at the expense of creating another problem. Some fear that stopping more street drugs would only drive up the prices of the remaining drugs illegally being distributed, thus only increasing further the wealth of the Colombian drug lords. It would not stop appreciably the flow of drugs into the United States of America, and the resulting problems. Indeed, American drug addicts would have to seal even more in order to pay for the higher price of drugs.  Some people are saying that legalizing drugs is a great idea because it would undercut the economics of the whole process. However, that is not morally acceptable. It is the same principle as if your kids steal, you just give them whatever they want to prevent them from stealing. And letting drug offenders out of prison and jail early also defeats the purpose of the war on drugs. It is the same as letting your kids off punishment because you cannot afford to stay home from work and make sure they are obeying your rules.  

Another example of unreality creating problems in the World is the new technology. Technology not only creates new problems but new diseases as well. Computers have given rise to whole new kind of disease called computer viruses. These are not viruses in the strict biological sense, but instead computer programs invade and attack the logic of the host computers into which they are input. Many of the viruses are so sophisticated that they cannot be detected by the most sophisticated of means.  The computer viruses are often concealed within so-called normal or friendly-appearing programs that are used to run computer systems. What is more, they are often embedded within modern day Trojan Horses, i.e., inside free gifts that are sent to the operators of computer systems. Computer viruses have been used to attack dams, which were in some cases, thankfully down for maintenance. The result of technology is that once-sacred geopolitical borders are increasingly irrelevant. Technology and drug usage are signs that reality itself has become increasingly complex over the course of this century, in particular, the ability of the average citizen to make sense of that complexity has diminished accordingly. It has also become clear that when the World can no longer be made coherent, either through explanation or action, then we seek coherence elsewhere. In a World of people who are going mad, as the result of overwhelming complexity, the requirement for coherence does not diminish. Its requirement becomes even greater.  

If we cannot find coherence in ideas or intellectual patterns alone, then we seek it in alternate forms, e.g., in cult of personalities like Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento (who is now being used by 14 other mayors and also causing the city of Sacramento to get used also well); in pseudo made for TV pop heroes like the Sacramento Hometown Heroes; in entertaining and amusing faces that soothe over our requirement for satisfying explanations. The 21^st century has succeeded in the deliberate manufacturing and distribution of celebrities on a wide scale. Many have developed fascinations with celebrities that borders on the sociopathic. The fascination with celebrities, however, is only part of a larger, virtually unexplored phenomenon. In recent years, it has become fashionable to engage in culture of bashing of various forms: celebrities, TV, and education. However, the critics seem to be missing something because of their failure to see the underlying general phenomenon which is at work.  People are bashing celebrities because they cannot fully control nor understand their own World, so they have invented substitute realities that they can control via their social media comments and feel like they have control over something. The fundamental purpose of unreality is to provide an illusion of control. If they cannot control what the city council or the mayor is doing with their tax dollars, or their children or spouse, they just bash a celebrity to make themselves feel better.