Meanwhile, campaigns of dominance and acquisition continue unabated, inflicting devastation and suffering across the globe on a scale beyond measurement using any Western-calibrated yardstick of fussy “equality”. Designated outgroups are still strategically dehumanized to cement sentiment, while domestically, increasing surveillance and brutality erode from under us the precious rights and freedoms so many died so recently to preserve. Crises are created (or allowed to happen), and then managed, filtered and massaged, our tantrums shushed. Coverage is infotainment, and rife with misdirection.
The reason why established powers are pushing people in the West towards stunted and dysfunctional oxytocin expression is this: when they form strong ingroup bonds with moral solidarity, they quickly become healthy blocks of social influence, and much more difficult to control. This threatens entrenched interests who have grown accustomed to and feel entitled to the continuous flow of our blind consent. That's why historically, they've sought to tear men from their families and pit them against one another, even men so genetically similar as neighbouring Europeans: to cull them, and any threats to power that arise from a lower level of the pyramid.
Effectively, an echo of human sacrifice by the priest-class.
To maintain supremacy, and perhaps in a tentative step towards curtailing large-scale physical barbarity, their new goal is to prevent in-group autonomy from forming by impeding our innate social urges, and isolating us into narcissistic, distracted, anxious individuals, splintered inside, bitterly fighting each other over petty, magnified differences, and vainly seeking external validation. Where our natural bonds persist, they seek to mediate and surveil them through communication technologies, and commoditize them at every possible stage. Our trust, loyalty, and life's output can then be accreted to the state/banking/media/academic/corporate superstructure. Through this apparatus and its codes of behaviour, we are told what to believe, what to think, what we should desire, and what we're allowed to say aloud if we wish to keep our station. They've encoded cultural killswitches in our cerebral cortices, interfering with our self-integration, and signal-jamming our connection with our own deep, ancient limbic drives.
It feels good to be a part of something bigger than oneself, something one believes in. This is completely natural: we're social animals. We seek a sense of purpose, and groups of people with hearts and minds aligned can move mountains. They know this, and seek to dictate to us exactly what we may feel good being a part of, so our energies can be funnelled to their ends.
They are literally trying to hijack our physiology from the inside out.