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The Strange Cause of the Silent Destruction of Togetherness and the Rise of Loneliness
If You Have No Friends, No Family, and You Don’t Bother with People, This Is Why It’s Not You
We are now a low-trust society with no communities, neighbours and in some cases even families to speak of, but how did we get here?
There is an aspect of pathological narcissism which, if left unchecked and allowed to get out of hand, can explain the diabolical situation we each find ourselves in.
Narcissism is a pathology focused on how their peers perceive them; this is the most crucial aspect to a narcissist, and they will betray the people they have intimate relationships with for the approval of strangers they haven’t even met.
The effects of this on society are that for the past two or three decades, narcissistic people have been organising individuals into groups to attack innocent people who have been the target of their abuse before.
This led to the individuals who needed help being delivered out of the hands of these wretched people, being crushed by the society that they so desperately sought help from instead.
The domino effect is that we subsequently become a low-trust society, spearheaded not just by the…
