>>101613363He's Mad.
His efforts are delusional and have no basis in reality.
Even Gamora's dim memories as a child contradict his narrative. He's spent the rest of her life trying to feed her a false narrative and not even that was really working.
He tries to show Strange and co. how Titan was on the verge of systemic collapse, and it's clear to see in his image that it's rather idyllic, rather than some packed-solid dystopia or even a super built-up Coruscant scale society.
He's doing insane things under false paranoia.
This is a repeated symptom of keeping the Mind Stone in one's possession, and he had it for who knows how long before lending it to Loki.
Loki started behaving (more) irrationally after getting it.
Stark got really erratic and paranoid after just a bit of contact with it in Avengers and Avengers 2.
It drove Banner to lash out at the Avengers.
It corrupted Stark's new AI into megalomania.
Vision is just about the only thing it hadn't fucked up.
