You'll get a lot of people who will claim you are just trying to get the oppressed to accept their oppression. That isn't true, but it serves their purpose.
The most successful civil rights movement in the 20th century was in the 50s and 60s under Martin Luther King. I don't remember him ever advocating for jealousy or envy. King took the road of the Happy Warrior. A Happy Warrior isn't happy because of all the things they have got but rather because they know they are doing the right thing. When he spoke to the crowd on the National Mall, he didn't say, "Take the rich man's money. He doesn't deserve it. " He didn't demonize white people as irretrievably racist. Instead, he spoke about his dream. It impacted the nation far more than an angry diatribe about greed ever could.
He merely drempt of a world where "us" and "them" were "we." You don't hear that today. Political influencers push for class warfare, social envy, and cultural division. Algorithms reward hate. Anger, fear, and outrage drive more clicks than reason.
Social media may be the death of us all. The Great Filter of the Fermi paradox. It is our equivalent to the Krell machine in Forbidden Planet.
https://www.atlassociety.org/post/on-viewing-forbidden-planet-on-its-60th-anniversary
Some days, I often think that despite how far we have come in terms of "civilization", we are still three hairs from being baboons. There are these powerful remnants left within our brains, that never were genetically "weeded out" over the millennia, that makes us quite simple and primitive. Whenever there are those with the intellect and self-discipline to overcome our baser instincts, the people who rise to the top, become our inspirations, the people who show us a positive possible future, there's always others who just want to see the world burn.
I totally agree that social media was introduced to us with some naivety, a way for us to connect and share. It sounds so altruistic. Grandma can see and share photos of her grandchildren anytime she wants. So sweet and thoughtful. Unfortunately, it gave the "hidden" 2-3% of psychopaths, narcissists, and sociopaths a public platform. Imagine the Batman villain "The Joker" thinking to him/herself,
"Madness,...all they need is a little push, and they will turn on themselves." Unfortunately, unlike the comic books, "The Joker" just might be your father, your cousin, your sister, or your mother on social media. People who appear to be "well-mannered" in their public lives, behind a computer screen, become someone else entirely.
Now, some 20 years later after social media was introduced to the masses, a generation has passed. Liberalism, conservatism, feminism have all morphed into extreme, toxic, and ignorant versions of themselves. The mainstream media figured out that controversy, conflict, and violence grab the attention of the mob. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt make up the majority of our news feeds. The nuclear family is becoming a thing of the past. Emotions take priority over logic and self-discipline. Long-term goals are replaced by immediate gratification. Basically, we are spiraling downward, we are regressing, in terms of civilization.
It is an interesting paradox, for over the next 10-20 years, we will transition to a world of sustainable energy, of a robotic labor force, air taxis, cybernetics, genetic manipulation, space travel, a world of excess where everything is available anytime we want it, including knowledge, yet, as a species, we just might regress in terms of society to that of primate tribes, a complete dumbing down, and perhaps destroy ourselves and hand it over to artificial intelligence, ushering in another era.
Neurotypical communication is quite complex and has many layers, and is why autistics tend to struggle with this, but it's more than that, I sense. Neurotypicals tend to interpret and internalize information, in general, quite differently than us, then act upon it accordingly. Perhaps that is their "disorder".
