The collective conscience of society has been altered by this substance to such a degree that everyone is always on edge and anxious unless they chug down their cup for the day and/or finish the night off with alcohol to ease the crash a bit which leads to poor sleep, thus requiring higher doses of caffeine the next morning and so on.

This then leads to people becoming less tolerant of others and increasing conflict. We can see its effects on today's society in this hyper divisive political environment, everyone being thin skinned and knee-jerk policies being implemented by governments everywhere.

I firmly believe the collapse of society we are currently witnessing is caused by Caffeine and similar alkaloids such as Theobromine.