why everything feels off: evolving past individualism

The meaning crisis. The meta and poly crisis. The loneliness epidemic. The decline of social capital and collapse of community. The loss of unifying narratives. The kali yuga. Whatever you want to call it. When we listen to these proclamations we inherently perceive their truthfulness. That they are loosely gesturing at the same thing. That something is existentially amiss in the cultural and societal waters we’re swimming in. And although we can’t fully grok what the problem nor solution may be, we feel its repercussions through our relative experiences, reverberating across the human experience: the pervasiveness of of anxiety and depression, decline in institutional trust, increase in social disconnection, and the decay of religious, social and civic infrastructure. Overall, society increasingly feels more individualist. And in that void our surrogates for meaning become progressively derived from dogmatic ideologies, cacophonies of new-age rituals and ancient rites, consumption of

The meaning crisis. The meta and poly crisis. The loneliness epidemic. The decline of social capital and collapse of community. The loss of unifying narratives. The kali yuga. Whatever you want to call it. When we listen to these proclamations we inherently perceive their truthfulness. That they are loosely gesturing at the same thing. That something is existentially amiss in the cultural and societal waters we’re swimming in. And although we can’t fully grok what the problem nor solution may be, we feel its repercussions through our relative experiences, reverberating across the human experie