If you’re anything like me, you’re scrolling social media and can’t help but think:
What the f*ck is wrong with everyone?
It seems like everyone became radicalized overnight on both sides.
So, I want to expose the psychology of what’s happening here, and help you take control of your ability to think clearly during crazy times.
In short, this is the result of regression and ideology.
When you go through a stressful event, and if you haven’t practiced the skill of stress mitigation for multiple years, you regress to a lower level of consciousness. You become reactive and animalistic. The worst parts of yourself come out and you may throw away various opportunities you could have had in your life.
You resort to black and white thinking, attaching to a preferred set of beliefs, joining echo chamber tribes that prescribe « one right way » to do or think about things, and if you fall for this trap, your life slowly gets worse for obvious reasons.
This can happen on a mass scale and often occurs in cycles.
When tax season comes around, everyone feels some form of stress.
When political elections happen, those who are sufficiently indoctrinated turn into a completely different person.
When something catastrophic and gruesome is plastered all over social media… you get the point.
And with the internet allowing the spread of information faster than ever, it’s easy to get trapped in this lower level of thinking.
I’m not here to talk about what is right or wrong. I have my views and you have yours. You can find any opinion you want somewhere else. Instead, I want to dissect the mind behind lower levels of human development.
If you understand this, you’ll be able to navigate this emotional wasteland without becoming animalistic and making decisions that could ruin your life.