> But I bet a lot of people aren't even aware this is happening to them.

That is the nature of this particular science, and the nail has been in the coffin on this since the 1950s.

There are the people that know it exists, but would have others believe it doesn't because they have a vested interest or benefit in doing so (in control), and then there are those that believe it doesn't exist (the victims).

They are indoctrinated since childhood by depriving them of real education (based in greek curricula), into delusional patterns.

The people who know it exists, and how it works, and try to help people are a extreme rarity albeit very much appreciated by those they do manage to help.

Unfortunately, these people almost always categorically get punished in one way or another until they stop giving their goodwill away, which then creates a self-fulfilling dynamic, where destruction, loss, and calamity are inevitable and must occur before the majority can ever notice a problem or consider the danger.

That is unfortunately, the nature of delusion and schizophrenia during such times (which are common under totalitarianism). Its described quite prominently in writings on how the Nazi's were post-loss during WW2.

> Sometimes you need someone to point out the elephant in the room.

Sometimes you just need to let the dynamics take their course.

Pointing out the elephant doesn't do anything, the people invested in such systems don't want to think, they enjoy the surety of their limited agency, their lack of choice. There is no mystery, they have the existence they want, and they want to impose it on others. This too is part of totalitarianism.

No amount of saying something will make such people listen, their minds are inflexible because they have been made that way.

You have the same issues with cult victims.

Your entirely correct about the US vs Them mentality. We are no longer only divided by the political aisle, or differing principles of faith. Now we are further gender divided into Male/Female more than ever, despite those very baseline concepts failing to accurately define humans as they currently exist in a modern society. I don't just mean physically, I'm more meaning our understandings of those ideas themselves, how we expect a Man or Woman to act.

We are also divided by timeline generations - not only age bc with in say the Boomer generation, even if all fall within the same 10-20 years generation, they don't all agree.

All structures in our society are divided against all the rest and themselves - the GOP vs Trumpers, Dems vs Progressives, the GLBTQ community vs the T in that acronym.

None of this is the base division along what used to be thought of realist vs pragmatic vs liberal.

All the old divisions like racism, sexism, elitism, etc - they got a fresh look and a rerelease to catch the trending hate now.

None of this is OK or Right and everyone knows themselves or people they don't correct, are behaving out of line - nobody will admit it til after the craziness stops, it's like willful ignorance, with the lines of the winner writes the history - if Trumpers can just ride out the racist wall and the world doesn't get too bad, they can all laugh about it later, for example. We've crossed so many lines nothing is sacred now, we can't see it, our behavior, or hear the insanity coming out our mouths - all our defense mechanisms to keep us in the box we picked.

Anyways, Germans woke up after WWII and that same generation that formed the core of then German society passed laws like making Holocaust Denial illegal.

The truth will always eventually beat out lies, no matter how defended, propped up or much we've chosen to believe the lies.

Like how its the Mexicans fault the US economy is unaffordable or how it's poor people's fault they are poor - YOUR fault if YOU are - both of those are equally bullshit.

Our house is divided and we are willing to even fight each other that division but it's all really just children's blames games - the rampant use of "whataboutisms" as if they DO ACTUALLY JUSTIFY actions is my case in point - they don't, never have, will never in the future and is an easy way to automatically render your opinion less than anyone who doesn't make an argument that 2 wrong make a right, that's Sunday school lessons fr.

Everyone is so sensitive and snowflakes bc their opinions and the facts in their heads allow them a foundation as strong as a house of cards - they kno that so fundamentally they are insecure and everybody "thinks they are less" but really just them.

tbh, in rl - nobody gives a fuck about another person beyond how it relates to them, we kno this personally but still lose sleep over how the copies of people that exists in our heads will tell us they feel about w/e - the real ppl don't feel or think what we all pretend they do... unless it relates to them.

Individual people have to wake the f up to who they are and who they are not.

Self examination, self assessment, self awareness - these are all elephants we all have but only if we identify for ourselves the elephant can we become aware of them.

Typically we only the above "self" stuff when everything stops bc its all fallen apart around us and we have to think a little.

Maybe lets not do that as a society? ALL of KNOW ALREADY what they say about a house divided against itself.

Our head is the first house divided against itself.

Sry - it's been a bit since I ranted and this is a bit of a button for me.

tl:Dr: I agree! Excellent assessment. Have an awesome day.

The notion about "groups" is nowhere in the article. Your comment, however, is written as if belonging to some group is necessary. Worse, your comment delineates the example groups it gives based on social media apps!

...and there's the irony. Because in my view, this unquenchable need to tribalize and to identify enemy tribes is a direct consequence of the crisis described in the article. Which is fully aligned with my day to day experience BTW.

One could argue it goes back all the way to what was arguably the first high bandwidth, 'real-time', one-to-many socially connective technology - radio. Before that, connectivity was a lot slower, and you wouldn't waste things like the telegraph system on frivolous things.