- Cities destroyed community
- The Industrial Revolution destroyed the family unit
- Mandatory schooling institutionalized us as children and made the state our parental figures
- A century and a half of successive wars created generations of broken men
- Free love, birth control, and on demand abortion broke generations of women, cheapened sex to a transactional pleasure that could be bought for a date with no commitment.
- Strong social programs gave men an easy way out of fatherhood.
- Unbearable economic pressure created a caste system that most men can never climb out of, life feels meaningless, and the pursuit of pleasure over responsibility leads to toxic masculinity
- Feminism as a response to oppressive male culture emphasizes the schism between men and women, ensuring that there is awareness of an unequal experience that strains marriages
- Everything has become commoditized and disposable, from homes built out styrofoam to relationships that can be replaced with a swipe on an app.
- Overregulation, subscription models, and taxation have eroded ownership in everything from real estate, business and even in physical media ensuring that nothing really belongs to us.
- The growth of persistent surveillance has made all of us feel watched constantly and is altering behavior, eroding our sense of safety and privacy.