From Powerlessness to Collective Madness The world has gone crazy, but there is a pattern behind it. More people seem to be losing their grip on reality, swept up in ideological movements that demand conformity and punish dissent. This progression begins with powerlessness, continues with possession, and ends in resentment disguised as justice. The first stage is the breakdown of what can be called the power process. Human beings need to set goals, work toward them, and achieve them in order to feel whole. Once, daily life revolved around hunting, farming, building, and creating. Today, survival and progress are often managed by vast systems and institutions. As a result, many people feel alienated and powerless. They turn to movements for a sense of purpose, drawing progress not from their personal lives, but from the causes they embrace. Carl Jung described what happens next. Inside a movement, individuals can become possessed by collective identities. Those who refuse the difficult task of becoming themselves may dissolve into the group mind. This is why ideologies such as communism, nationalism, feminism, socialism, and environmentalism can exert such power: they offer ready-made identities and moral clarity. Individuals gradually stop thinking for themselves and become mouthpieces for the collective identity that has seized them. Nietzsche revealed the final stage: resentment. In *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*, he described the “tarantulas”—moral preachers who spin ideological webs in the name of justice. They claim to champion the weak, but their motivation may be envy and revenge, cloaked in noble language. Their goal is not always to uplift, but to tear down the strong. When the world seems to have gone mad, the pattern is clear: people lose the power process in their own lives, surrender themselves to ideologies, and then act out their resentment as justice. The cure is not another movement, but the difficult task of reclaiming individuality in an age of collective madness.
The Pathology of Masculinity and Femininity Without Cultural Restraint Both sexes have evolutionary roles: men developed strength for protection, provision, and competition; women developed beauty and selectiveness for pair-bonding and survival. Culture channels these drives—family structure, dating norms, fatherhood, shame, religion—guiding strength toward building and beauty toward commitment. Remove the norms and the drives seek new avenues. For men, the open channel becomes force: aggression and risk can detach from responsibility, yielding robbery, assault, gang violence, and predation. The shadow side of masculinity is strength used to take rather than protect. For women, the channel shifts to extraction through simulated intimacy: monetized desire via platforms and influencer economies can turn closeness into leverage, often without the pair-bonding or family life it was built to support. The masculine ideal is protector and disciplined provider; its pathology is thug or criminal. The feminine ideal is nurturer and guardian of commitment; its pathology is the seller of simulated intimacy and extractor of attention. Both are corruptions of genuine virtues. Three accelerants intensified these patterns: stigma’s collapse, technology’s scalability of desire, and weakened communities and absent fathers. The root cause is the breakdown of family norms. Men are less destructive when bonded and mentored; women are less exploitative when raised to value enduring commitment. Consequences mirror each other: unchecked male pathology produces violence; unchecked female pathology produces mistrust, loneliness, and demographic decline. Both arise when culture denies that masculine and feminine virtues must be shaped and channeled rather than suppressed.
When Failure Becomes a Demand for More A worldview that persists despite its unending list of failures is not interested in truth but in power. Consider how its adherents respond to the breakdown of their policies. They do not believe that multiculturalism itself has failed; they believe it was not implemented forcefully enough, or that the host nation was not subjected to enough propaganda promoting compulsory compassion. It is not that gender dysphoria is a mental illness; they argue that society simply has not normalized it enough. It is not that safe supply has failed; it merely has not been expanded enough. Decriminalization is not a bad idea, they insist. We simply failed to provide criminals with enough free resources and support programs before implementing it. Friedrich Nietzsche expressed the idea of suicidal empathy in his own words nearly a century and a half before Saad. In *Beyond Good and Evil*, he described a society that had grown so “pathologically soft and tender that it sides even with those who harm it.” Once society reaches this stage, he observed, anything that raises a person above the herd or intimidates their neighbors is declared evil. Mediocrity becomes the highest achievement.
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“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” https://t.co/fL7PHH4JhI #ClimateAction #OilTax #RenewableEnergy #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweetprovided.Thus #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
Scientists say climate breakdown is triggering more frequent and more extreme weather events, evaporating soils and waterways, fuelling wildfires and leading to thousands of excess deaths. Europe is heating at about twice the global average rate. https://t.co/utrgl7m1M6 #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather #GlobalWarming #EU
Ff serieus blijven @carogennez, ik heb meerdere vrienden die een podcast runnen (met betere kijk- en luistercijfers) zonder subsidies of ads en dit is hun gemiddelde kost-breakdown: • Totaal eerste jaar (eenmalige investering in materiaal zonder huur van ruimte maar in deftige living of zo + goeie maar geen al te dure editing apps): €400 - €850 (gemiddeld ~€550) • Totaal over 3 jaar (eenmalig + 3 × terugkerend): €500 - €1.250 (gemiddeld ~€650 - €750) • Oké die mensen steken hun tijd er gratis in. Opmerkingen: • Die gasten zijn gestart met een basis-setup en later verder beginnen upgraden. • De meeste kosten zijn eenmalig. Na het eerste jaar zijn de lopende kosten zeer laag. • Tijdsinvestering (niet financieel): 4-10 uur per aflevering (editing) + initiële leerperiode. Dus oké, leg het ons uit a.u.b. #Podcast #Investering #Media
Αν δεν υπήρχε αυτή η φωτογραφία, αυτην την στιγμή θα είχα πάθει mental breakdown άνευ προηγουμένου https://t.co/rB4KfBu4MW #MentalHealth #Photography #Breakdown
It appears what is actually going is that ships trapped in the west of the Strait are escaping via the Oman route. Meanwhile Iran is trying to calculate how much they allow before full closure and a potential breakdown in negotiations. 🇮🇷🛳️🚀 #StraitOfHormuz #Iran #ShippingCrisis #OM #IR
A truck breakdown in Niger left 49 passengers dead due to dehydration after they were stranded for days in the Sahara Desert while returning from a religious festival in Mali, with only two survivors managing to reach water and alert authorities. #NigerTragedy #SaharaDesert #TransportationSafety
Biodiversity is the living web that sustains humanity. Yet, climate chaos, pollution & the relentless exploitation of nature, are pushing the natural world towards breakdown. This #BiodiversityDay, let's work together to halt & reverse biodiversity loss, so people & nature can #BiodiversityDay #SaveNature #ClimateAction #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.
Best 5 minute breakdown of what has happened in Hungary and why it is very bad for Europe. - Hungarian voters voted on domestic issues without understanding that the stakes were global and geopolitical. - The Fidesz government had manoeuvred Hungary onto the winning side of the https://t.co/jStujoHPom #Hungary #Geopolitics #Fidesz #HU #EU
Samsung Electronics and its labor union are set to resume pay talks with a government mediator amid concerns over a potential strike, following a breakdown in negotiations and an apology from Chairman Jay Y. Lee regarding the labor dispute's impact on customers and the public. #Samsung #LabourNegotiations #TechIndustry #KR
RT @AvivaKlompas: A breakdown of how Nicholas Kristof discarded journalistic standards, abandoned rationale thinking, and published libelou… #Journalism #MediaEthics #FactChecking
The article explores the journey and financial breakdown of crude oil from extraction in Saudi Arabia, where production costs about $25 per barrel, to the consumer, shedding light on the factors contributing to the current high pump prices, which have surged to around $95 amid Middle Eastern conflicts. #OilPrices #EnergyMarket #Commodities #SA #TH
A group of United Nations human-rights experts has urged Starbucks and the U.S. government to address allegations of intimidation and harassment against employees seeking to unionize, highlighting serious concerns about violations of rights to freedom of expression and assembly, while negotiations between the company and its unionized workers have recently resumed after a prior breakdown. #HumanRights #LaborRights #Unionization #US
A group of United Nations human-rights experts has called on Starbucks and the U.S. government to address allegations of a prolonged anti-union campaign by the company, citing reports of harassment and intimidation against workers involved in union activities since 2021, while negotiations between Starbucks and its unionized baristas have resumed after a breakdown earlier this year. #HumanRights #Unionization #Starbucks #US
United Nations human-rights experts have called on Starbucks and the U.S. government to address allegations of intimidation and harassment against employees seeking to unionize, highlighting potential violations of international rights, while the company claims to be negotiating in good faith with its unionized workers following a breakdown in talks. #LaborRights #Unionization #HumanRights #US
A group of United Nations human-rights experts has urged Starbucks and the U.S. government to address allegations of harassment and intimidation against unionizing workers, as negotiations between the company and its unionized baristas resume after a breakdown in early 2025, while Starbucks maintains that it is engaging in good faith and offers competitive benefits. #HumanRights #Unionization #Starbucks #US
The United Nations human-rights experts have called on Starbucks and the U.S. government to address serious allegations of a campaign against workers seeking to unionize, citing claims of harassment and intimidation since 2021, while negotiations between the company and its unionized employees have recently resumed after a breakdown in early 2025. #HumanRights #Unionization #Starbucks #US
