Thank you for covering this..

Here is my experience talking about this:

I get better traction with people by explaining that these things are more like a "war on consciousness".. I think this is the most accurate way.

• most of the assaults don't cause immediate death
• people can understand this: power structures have all the incentives to keep people from getting smart and overthrowing the corrupt systems that keep us powerless.
• this leads into what we must learn and apply: how to repair and improve consciousness. A healthy mind is what we need to become free and avoid making the same mistakes as we take our power back.

I do believe it is very important to see seriously as you have made it out to be in your title. ;) .. We can't simply make excuses for the powers that shouldn't be and pretend like they don't intend to do it..

In my view, this realization that we are being attacked can influenced us enough to really know what we need to do to protect ourselves. We can still remain peaceful but accepting a reality like this is needed to achieve the power and force we need turn this ship around.