First I believe in equality and all humans should have a shot at a good life based on merit.

However, I also see that the road to hell is paved with good intentions and we are on this trajectory.

We decided that men and women are equal (which they are to a large degree) on all aspects. We believe in this part of the world that women should have just the same say and power as the most powerful men (usually white) do.

Yet all we've done is concentrate power at the most attractive, most white , most affluent group of men and women while taking it away from other groups.

We told ourselves that we achieved a better society with this skewed distribution of power because finally, women and men are able to compete for the same jobs AND same sexual powers that we've traditionally never dealt with.

Contraception is THE main enablers of this new paradigm shift. However, what society deems women who are unattractive or "not it" do not benefit. Similarly, men who society deems unattractive or "not it" do not benefit. These groups are further pushed away into the fringes while the "it" crowd receives all the benefits. Contraception technology increases women's sexual capital because they no longer have to worry about pregnancy. This creates losers on both side of the gender and they both engage in toxic competition. Social media further magnifies and increases the impact on people's mental health. The same groups are also aligned with this political scaffolding because they benefit by not having to discriminate by genders or race, and able to hire people based largely on merit.

Outside this bubble, there is a growing sense of anger, especially in regions where they've largely witnessed the loss of the old power structure and economic powerhouses that once provided the social stability.

Coupled with the fact that there is the greatest amount of highly educated young, marginally employed demographic, who are online all the time, you get a recipe for unstability.

I absolutely believe that an individual should have agency over their own body and mind. However, I also recognize that we've confused individual liberty and freedom with apathy. Apathy is in demand because people think that's what enables their freedom, it only pushes people away into isolation, extremism. The freedom to think, say, act whatever is the power they believe must champion all else and because of this attachment that an individual forms with his own thoughts and ideas, it is unable to reconcile the differences in reality vs expectations which is filled with ideals and half baked ideas.

So with all these things in mind, is it not a natural progression that this society creates angry, self-loathing, self-obsessed, individuals looking for an escape? The ideal avatar they create online vs the real one they need to live as, this cognitive dissonance when paired with apathy from society and the individual creates extreme stress.

This is my take on America. Take it or live it but I will leave this bit:

The perfect slave engages in a self-dialogue that convinces himself they are free and that they belong to an apathetic, materialistic, shallow, vapid society we've built today. All started with nothing but good intentions.