From the original article:

“It is our duty to spend our time working to surrender, dismantle, and destroy these structures that steal time and invite death.”

I noticed the same sentence. The only way to analyze it is to take it apart and examine its rhetorical structure and content.

I’d suggest that it does not have to mean anything, and that meaning something is not what is important in it, nor what gets communicated to the reader.

It sets up and establishes, as a mythic reference, and on an ontological level, a malicious and malevolent force there doing harm, grinding people up, diverting them, and making life miserable. There is no particular subject, no partiular reference, and no solid image to think about, but that is how and why it functions rhetorically. It is a general, abstract and vague complaint and one designed to hook the reader if that reader is so inclined. In this sense you have to be willing to participate with the writer in the imagined scenario she is establishing.

It will sound a bit esoteric — it is not really but I know this is how it sounds — but she is making a metaphysical assertion: she is describing an aspect of reality and existence that is metaphysical to the world she attempts to identify.

It is very important, in my view, to notice that it is these sorts of sentiments — vague, undefined plaints — that have begun to move in our cultural body and mind and that they are the stuff of mass-hysteria. I am not exaggerating. Since there is no subject in what she writes, she is referring to a vague sentiment, a suspicion, a fantasy, even an hallucination or an invention, and she asks that her reader see it and feel it too. And the reader just might. The reader might want to. In this there is a sort of willfulness — and I’d also suggest maliciousness — that operates in this weilding or rhetorical speech.

This vague sentiment, this recognition of ontological malevolence, can be turned against anything and anyone on the spur of the moment. That is why it is dangerous.

When people lose the capacity to think and to reason clearly, it comes about because their perception tools have become contaminated with sentimentalism and possibly some hysterical psychological factor. They are no longer seeing ‘reality’ but are seeing their projection of their own inner content — an inner drama — projected outward.

The cure? Now that is an interesting topic!