The Petroleum Era was a time of enormous social stress, and a variety of social psychotic diseases emerged, a side effect of unregulated and increasingly sophisticated social communication and hive mind technology. GPSSD is also known as Wrong Way Distortion, or Hyperaggresssive Progressive Antagonistic syndrome.

'Have you ever felt like there’s a world just beyond ours? Some sort of strange dimension, a light dancing just beyond our fingertips? Well, I’ve touched that ‘sacred’ world, and I know its true face.'