Long story short, it's what I would call an outcome of fallen human nature.

In my view, we have original nature endowed by the Creator, but due to an incident in past history, we also have fallen or corrupted nature, inherited from what scripture refers to as 'the devil'. So we're a mix, and that mix causes all sorts of distortions and problems that grow and multiply as we develop in our life from the time of birth, and which, after we become adults, we spend a lifetime attempting to address and correct.

At play are all sorts of emotional distortions, where different emotions are triggered by thoughts grounded in a mixture of truth and falsehoods, often in a manner that violates the original purpose of those emotions.

Example: a sense of identity (value) attached to a belief, because that sense of value was never grounded in true identity (i.e. one's true nature as a child of God) or ever fully experienced in the growing process (because our parents, by definition, were unable to fully and completely love us because they themselves were never fully and completely loved by their parents and families, and so on back into history).

So when someone attaches their identity to their belief in order to shore up themselves and avoid or suppress feelings of insecurity or lack of value or doubts about themselves, and then those beliefs feel threatened by the possibility of entertaining other ideas (because that also suggests the possibility of the painful and difficult feelings that have been suppressed and ignored/dodged rising to the surface and having to be confronted), well, then the fight or flight mode is activated and people will often either fight (aka go on the attack, become highly defensive, and do whatever they can to avoid the painful feelings and ideas) or fly (suppress the feelings by ignoring the other possible ideas).

This sad state of affairs is underpinned by spiritual forces that feed off of negative and distorted emotions, like fear, desperation, anxiety, anger, hate, etc. Those forces seek to perpetuate the state of distortion because they survive and continue their existence by drawing on the destructive and negative energy that is generated.

For example, fear itself is a very important emotion. It's meant to be triggered when there is danger, to activate our mental and physical system to act quickly - often immediately - to avoid the danger. But like a fire alarm that goes off and is left on for hours and hours, if we remain in a state of fear, it quickly begins to have negative and debilitating effects on our system. We get worn down quickly, ragged, and soon the emotional effects become toxic.

The distortions we are constantly dealing with are emotional states that originally have an important function but which become toxic if activated too often or constantly, and also when there is in fact no cause or need. (If we are lied to, it may trigger the emotion even thought in fact the need for it is not really there.)

The Cabal on earth, being aware of these things, likewise seeks to perpetuate those distortions and manipulate or amplify them because it makes people much easier to control.

So, to some extent, I would say it is engineered, but it also an exploitation of a fundamental human weakness rooted in our fallen nature. The sources and agents abusing these weaknesses reside both in the spiritual dimension but also here, on the physical plane.

The above are some of the reasons why this is more than an information war, and is very much also a spiritual war.

It's also why the connection to God is key and critical to everything, because it is only through a growing and developing relationship with the Creator that we can address and resolve the distortions we develop or which we have inherited.

Here the concept of Christ becomes key, in the idea that Christ is a person (man) of full and complete original nature that has been fully matured and perfected, and it is by the relationship with Christ that we gain access to the energy love and truth that allows us to heal the distortions and grow our own original nature.

That's also why the Kingdom has to come to the earth, because when we are surrounded by an environment that is polluted and distorted, resolving our own distortions and growing our true nature is an uphill battle. By environment, I mean spiritual, social, political, cultural, economic and familial environment.

The one place we can get access to unadulterated original nature is nature itself, which does not contain in and of itself the distortions that human beings are struggling with.