Protagonism

Protagonist Pathology: When people think the world was set up as a didactic lesson for their spiritual growth. Incels are probably the easiest and most obvious example, as they seem to think that the world is a broken game because they follow rules and it somehow "as if by magic" doesn't result in what they were told it would result in (sex). Protagonist brain is worse the more you use fiction, cinema, or video games to interpret the world, and is related to the YA-novel-virus. Protagonism especially encourages the sufferer to think about their struggles as unified, and united by a common theme, or object of desire, or subject of conflict. Thus, someone with protagonist brain is much more likely to imagine and understand problems related to their "theme" as much more important and dangerous than it actually is (incels: "I can't have sex because women are hypersexual." liberals: "society is evil because hate and muggles." conservative: "Everyone is an idiot because I failed to be a heroic figure") Protagonism leads to cynicism (in the banal sense), depression, feelings of extreme, high-stakes anxiety around the thematic "narrative" elements, and may also result in mass murder and suicide.
-- ‎Richard Radiance‎, on Faceb00k, 23. Nov, 2019