I live in Europe and lately I started noticing huge difference in a perception of reality between people living in urban areas, small villages and suburbs. The last group seams to exhibit more antisocial behavior patterns and "me against the world" mentality. And in combination with "self-employed" it can easily turn to pathological levels. The digital age doesn't make it easier either and it got much worse since COVID.

There is no doubt in my mind, that alienation as a part of neo-liberal project is the main weapon of the oligarchs in their struggle to crush us. This is probably not a hot news for most of you, but for me it has been just a relatively recent observation.

Very uplifting thought- creating free spaces is for sure the best course of action, deeply meaningful even beyond the concept of success and failure.

My 5c:

We are not all the same and our priorities very quite strongly depending on our experiences, character (scale between fearful and curious), current state of mind etc. Most of the people are not particularly interested in freedom or justice and prefer illusion of stability, as they have no confidence, that they can function without hierarchical structures. In order to defend that illusion (of stability), they are ready to lie or do unspeakable things, because without the illusion they would be forced to confront their deepest fears of inadequacy and fear of death, as the root of all fears. Our capability to lie to others and to ourself is arguably one of the main engines of civilization (we call it “Abstract Thinking”) and for the masters of lies it is simply too easy to rationalize actions, situations and atrocities and construct imaginary worlds, where every convenient shit is justified.

As long as that fearful majority thinks that it has something to lose (status, comfort, future…), they will defend status quo (hierarchical, boot-licking structures) with tooth and nail.

We all have some of it inside, to different degree.