What ails the modern world? What underlies the cultural anxiety that permeates every corner? An undercurrent of mass anxiety has spread and grown in frequency as greater numbers of people seemingly wait for the next shoe to drop, as if awaiting the fall of an executioner’s axe. Tens of millions of the submerged working class flail for security while the upper class who control public sentiment and public policy do nothing more than stare into a mirror, preening, soulless, ape-like, as they search for new spiritual short-cuts in the form of new, shallow belief systems. Every new crusade, be it COVID, Ukraine, transgender rights, et cetera, is a manifestation of this grasping for meaning by wealthy damned. A void within them has gone unfilled for so long that nothing now will satisfy their spiritual thirst. They are intellectually and spiritually unmoored, but in their search for meaning, will gladly sacrifice the world.
Our civilizational dilemma is that our opinion-moulding class is one of total nihilism, living with an abject lack of meaning. This is narcissism on a scale that is unsustainable. Society is caught in their maelstrom of quadrupedal vanity, and the suffering is profound. Civilization-ending narcissism on the part of our opinion-moulding class is the real threat.
