Michael Prescott YES!
I had forgotten about that when I wrote the OP but, yeah, I would looooove to figure out how to move players into a different — either decidedly non-modern or deeply post-human — head space.
That head space problem was a major struggle, tbh, when we played Circle of Hands. I think the rules try to get you to this older and more primitive place but it’s just…very hard to stay there. What do you mean they’ll just kill us if they don’t trust us? That’s insane!