There is something fundamentally broken with the average humans brain.

That’s true, but it’s not just the average human’s brain. It’s all our brains. Humans have been hacking each other for millennia - think of any scam or marketing tactic.

The question isn’t whether we’re imperfect (we are), it’s whether we can survive despite those imperfections. Whether we can recognize our deficiencies and protect each other from ourselves.

It starts with empathy. The war on empathy is doing more damage to this world than anything else IMO.

Everything from the rise of fascism, narcissism, dysmorphia and associated mental illnesses

Excuse me? I really hope this isn't a thinly veiled dig at trans people. Do not put us on the same level as Mango Mussolini

There is certainly a giving up on owning and being a part of one’s world, and instead embracing a consumeristic mind-controlling framing in which one is simply pushed around by basic urges and those who feed them and how everyone else is consuming.

I think this is the Internet and tech. Lots of people praise the older Internet, before Facebook etc, and for good reason. But I’m not sure you can separate what it was and what it’s become.

I think there’s a neo-Luddite position that many would appreciate but don’t know how to conceptualise, because we’re all in this consumeristic mind-control cloud to some extent and don’t know what foregoing it even looks like.