World gone crazy

Is it just me, or is the world going crazy? After spending some time with a trusted friend who helps people recover from severe trauma, she tells me she hears virtually the same story over and over again from people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, even from other countries. Without foolishly divulging details here, she is becoming more convinced of a pattern used in traumatizing people, often from childhood, to coerce them to carry out tasks they would not do in their right mind. I am aware I may sound as crazy as the people who see a spy under every tree and the like, but is it not strange that so many people are coming forward with similar symptoms and very similar tales of torture and abuse?
I hope I'm not getting paranoid, but I wonder what happened to the Nazi doctors after World War 2 that had conducted mind control experiments on concentration camp victims and other prisoners? It was well known that this happened. Some were tortured at length in weird experiments. Modesty forbids telling details. Many people think that some of these doctors, along with the likes of Verner von Braun, (who was a genius rocket scientist that designed the Vengance weapons that threatened to destroy London), were given free pardons and privileges in the USA and Britain, on condition they shared their knowledge. There were experts on rocket design, jet engines, atomic fusion, and mind control also? Von Braun helped design the USA's rockets and was instrumental in NASA's space successes. The fact that his weapons killed thousands of Londoners was quickly forgotten. Perhaps the Nazi doctors were also embraced as the Allies were so far behind the Nazis in mind control and were afraid that the Russians would seize the doctors before they could and win the next war, hot or cold.
I don't think this is very far fetched, even though I don't immediately believe any conspiracy theory off the bat. Some of the experiments in mind control are documented by the CIA under the name MK-ULTRA and the documents are available on the web as public record.
We can ask; how many people in hospitals and institutions, or have committed terrible crimes were messed up in one way or another in their childhood? All of them I think. Only the Good Lord knows the truth, and one day it will come out. Some, doubtless, were victims of poor parenting, poverty and lack of opportunities, but many, it is obvious, were viciously used, abused, and hurt. Just read the news every day if you don't believe me. How sad that their coping mechanisms have destroyed their lives and those of countless others whom they came into contact with.
Some friends and I were talking recently and we listed off so many baffling world situations it was not funny. Why do we still rely so much on fossil fuels? Why isn't more money spent on research to provide cleaner energy and automobiles? Why are we so reliant on Arab oil when they seem to fund terrorism against us? What's happening to Iraqi oil? I could go on. The conspiracy theorists used to seem to me to be completely crazy, but many of my friends, and I, now are wondering if there's a more than a grain of truth some of it? Perhaps we should all escape to Monty Python World for some relief.