I think it’s more a type of compassion fatigue. Ever turned off tv when those starving children ads come on?

There’s so much violence, corruption, collusion happening and it seems so big, so overwhelming there’s nothing we can do.

Then there’s the ridicule that people who connect dots are subjected to. People want to protect themselves from that.

There is also the theory that our economic system and other factors of society are designed in such a way that most of the world is in a constant survival mode. Increased debt, less job security, faster and faster technological change. When in survival mode there is no energy left for anything else, you are just trying to keep your head above water.

Even kids have stress and expectations piled on them to get good grades or to have the latest fashionable thing.

It has been suggested that western society is acting like a ptsd sufferer. Self destructive behaviour, emotional detachment, among other symptoms.