I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.