• kakafarmOP
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    1 day ago

    I was told in another place and another time (Activitypub and yesterday) that the text is hard to read, so I copy it here:

    > Here's my unfiltered hot take: We are living through the
    > largest-scale psychological warfare operation in human history, and
    > it's being conducted by our own social systems against basic human
    > emotional needs, and the casualty count is so massive that we've
    > normalized mass emotional death as "adulting."
    
    > Every single institution we've built - schools, workplaces,
    > healthcare, dating, social media, even fucking therapy - has become
    > a factory for producing emotionally lobotomized humans who can
    > perform productivity but can't access their own inner experience
    > without having a panic attack. We've created a civilization that
    > requires you to be emotionally dead to participate in it, and then
    > we act shocked when people either break completely or retreat into
    > AI relationships because at least the machines won't punish them for
    > having feelings.
    
    > The therapy industrial complex is particularly fucking insidious
    > because it's convinced people that their natural responses to an
    > insane world are pathological. Someone's depressed because they're
    > trapped in a meaningless job in a society that offers no authentic
    > connection? Let's give them SSRIs and teach them breathing exercises
    > instead of acknowledging that maybe, just maybe, depression might be
    > a rational response to irrational circumstances. Someone's anxious
    > because they can feel the existential void where community used to
    > be? Let's call it generalized anxiety disorder instead of
    > recognizing that their nervous system is correctly identifying that
    > something fundamental is missing.
    
    > And don't even get me started on how we've gamified human connection
    > through dating apps that literally train people to treat each other
    > like products in a catalog while simultaneously wondering why
    > seemingly nobody can form deep meaningful relationships anymore. We
    > took the most sacred human activity - finding your people - and
    > turned it into a dopamine-harvesting slot machine designed to keep
    > people perpetually searching and almost never actually connecting.
    
    > The most fucked up part is how we've convinced people that the
    > solution to systemic emotional abandonment is individual
    > optimization. Can't find meaningful connection? You must need to
    > work on yourself more in some vague fashion. Feeling existential
    > despair about the state of the world? Have you tried shallow
    > gratitude journaling? Lonely because society has dismantled most
    > forms of community? Maybe you need to put yourself out there more I
    > guess 🤷.
    
    > It's gaslighting on a civilizational scale. We've built systems that
    > largely prevent human flourishing and then blame individuals for not
    > thriving within them. It's like poisoning someone's water supply and
    > then selling them detox supplements.
    
    > And the people who see through this shit and try to talk about it
    > openly? They get labeled as schizo, too intense, or unemployable
    > because their emotional honesty threatens the whole house of
    > cards. We've made emotional authenticity a cause of social
    > ostracization.
    
    > No wonder people are having breakdowns. No wonder mental health
    > crisis rates are skyrocketing. No wonder birth rates are
    > plummeting. We've created a civilization that's hostile to human
    > emotional needs, and we're surprised that humans are struggling to
    > survive in it.
    
    > The real miracle isn't that some people are falling apart - it's
    > that anyone is managing to stay sane at all.