One word that explains why the world feels 'deeply off' for so many people

I think this is just the nature of collective cultural shifts when priorities and what we believe about the world change. I&#x27;ve seen it on smaller scales in companies (when the business priorities have changed but the rank and file need to pretend otherwise) and apparently that happened in the USSR. I think the west is dealing with the cultural shift of the death of the post WW2 (western lead) globalist utopian vision for the world.<p>A lot of people are not on board, and it&#x27;s now obvious it includes a lot of citizens of western countries who don&#x27;t believe the deal is favorable to their interests.

Adam Curtis‘ excellent documentary Hypernormalisation is available on YouTube:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Gr7T07WfIhM?si=ao9n52h4yn6Y40T1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Gr7T07WfIhM?si=ao9n52h4yn6Y40T1</a>

The thing is though, a bridge with large cracks in it hasn&#x27;t fallen down. You can always reinforce it and then it doesn&#x27;t fall down.<p>Same is true for the US. If the elected officials and their hired civil servants actually went around reinforcing the US then we&#x27;re fine. If they continue to neglect the decaying roads, neglect the growing trusts, and etc then the bridge will collapse.

A vague word for a vague feeling. It won&#x27;t be long before we&#x27;re ultra-orthogonal. Buy my book thanks.

This is a fancy word for “being human in a hostile and duplicitous world.”<p>There is a real cognitive cost to knowing everything is invalid but being disallowed to say it is this because then one is contributing to “a morale problem.” The weight of all the emotional labor is why most people can’t climb the corporate ladder, as the intellectual demands of office work are basically zero. Normally it is only autistic people who struggle with this cognitive dissonance on a daily basis, but since 2020 it has been basically everyone. The fact that our world is run by terrible people who will probably not go away until removed violently is one of those things no one can talk about, but everyone knows.

I could put a spoiler here but I won&#x27;t. It is a short article and might be more or less right.

The core issue is that many people are afraid to speak up or take action. We can see that things aren’t okay, yet we’re constantly told “everything is ok” and “this is normal”.<p>Depending on the topic, expressing concerns can result in being labeled as “racist,” “transphobic,” or “woke,” which discourages open and honest discussion.

In other words, the utter failure of progressives worldwide to shift from advocating for the needs and rights of the working class to carrying water for big corporations, while focusing on social issues that, though important, do not address the underlying problems driving wealth inequality and limited social mobility. In short, liberalism has failed to deliver.