Systemic psychological warfare, and it’s already happening on a global scale. Not through bombs and tanks, but through algorithms, division, overstimulation, isolation, fear, and shame. It’s war on connection, on empathy, on second chances, on being human.
Hate culture, cancel culture, stan culture, outrage loops they keep people reactive, afraid to grow, afraid to speak, afraid to mess up. But growth requires messing up.
Most people make the same mistakes, they just weren’t being watched. So why do we act like someone deserves to disappear for what we all know we’ve done too? That’s not justice. That’s control.
Now take that and scale it up:
Governments, corporations, and systems that benefit from keeping people distracted, angry, disconnected from themselves and from each other. Because people who are disconnected and constantly triggered are easy to control. They won’t unite. They won’t organize. They won’t rise.
You don’t need a battlefield when the battlefield is in your mind.
World War 3 isn’t coming. We’re living it. And the weapon is isolation.
Why don’t we know our neighbors? Why do cities feel like graveyards with the lights still on? The people around us… like we are literally in life, living life, and we dont want to meet the people in our area? In our space? A neighbor who literally sleeps next to you, a few meters away?
Why aren’t we loving each other more?
Because that would end the war.
And they don’t want that.
But we can want it.
We can choose it.
Comments
So well written. Yes, we can choose it, even while protecting ourselves. Every small act of kindness matters. Empathy is not a weakness. “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind” Antoine de Saint-Exupery