As always i really appreciate your comment.

I have been fortunate enough in life to have been afforded the gift of time. This has allowed me to indulge my interests, learning about anything i wanted that was connected to my core question of life.

The label Mental Illness does not sit well with me. The behavior in question may well arise and be described as being somewhere on the narcissistic / psychopathic spectrum. I have noticed that sometimes people will exhibit these behaviors but something is slightly different. I suspect that, that group have been conditioned into those behaviors.

The basic rule is, if we change our state and behavior, others will change correspondingly. We are fortunate that the Agents Smith will mostly respond in a similar fashion. A useful tool in this environment may well prove to be 'intermittent conditioning'. I believe it has an effect even when you know what is going on.