You're 100% right. This is their way of "creating order out of chaos" - they're manufacturing chaos so they can pick up the pieces and reconstruct them to their liking, and all of the things you mentioned are what's causing or apart of the chaos.

I'm honestly starting to believe we're fucked and we just have to buckle our seat-belts because we're already on the ride and it started moving a while ago.

Also, welcome :)