>>714186532
One must understand that this wave of suicidal tendencies is the result of a greater sphere of maligned influence. Total atomization of individuals and almost-total destruction of social cohesion leads to people being more easily manipulated by "causes" and "movements" which are uniformly infiltrated by manipulators who aim to use these socially isolated individuals for their own schemes. People desperately seek to belong to a community but said communities are culturally encouraged to be as exacting and feign exclusivity as much as possible so as to avoid the "wrong" outsiders from becoming insiders, so the instant you don't register as the correct kind of community member, you are made to feel ostracized and Othered. As an Other, you are now among a swirl of people who have been separated from in-groups and don't receive any direct communication that normally comes from community, meaning nobody is checking up on you, nobody is inviting you to engagements, nobody is encouraging you to participate, nobody is there to support you or be supported, nobody has tasks for you, and worst of all, you are then made to feel as if nobody notices your existence despite how effortless this would be to rectify.
So take all of that, apply it to a world where your overlords and masters feed off of your desperation and misery by trying to sell you products to numb the pain of this isolation, where they themselves have their fingers in every single pie trying to make more people miserable and desperate, press for social media to be flooded with messaging that shows people constantly happy and constantly among friends while routinely laughing at how miserable people can be while isolated, and lastly fill alternative social media with people who deny any of this could ever be happening, and you have the present state of affairs. Grug didn't have to worry about this 100,000 years ago, the smallhat tribe is a very recent affair.
