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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/Cardiologist3mpty138 on 2025-09-19 15:05:34+00:00.

Corporations have hijacked everything. Literally everything. The school system. Popular media and culture. The process of dating and creating friendships. Government. Healthcare. Our food and water. The air we breathe. They control so much and have TOO much unchecked power over our society. They design lifestyles and push them on the masses. Create problems that only exist for someone to profit. Create false narratives and perpetuate them to an ignorant population desperately seeking cohesion and a rationalization for the current condition of civilization/decay of the natural world and institutions. All while hiding behind religion. We’re literally marching towards a “Wall-E” kind of future.

They’re dividing us through social media. Encouraging everyone to see themselves as marketable commodities, as celebrities/influencers in our own little echo chambers of constantly reverberating adulation shielded from the slightest modicum of criticism or friction. People spend ungodly amounts of time curating an image—competing to be this ideal, perfect, “brilliant”, glossy kind of person. Cleverly hiding any imperfections from the world. People get so caught up in this individualistic fantasy world they become empty, despondent, hedonistic victims of these tech companies. All their beliefs and lifestyle is shaped by someone else, by what the algorithms and AI want them to believe. True critical thinking of any extent is increasingly becoming a relic of the past.

And what’s worse? The fact that if you refuse to participate in this twisted mass deception where life becomes a series of fragmented opportunities to maximize clout and pin discrete, quantitative value onto the immeasurable, infinite qualitative beauty and mystery of so many experiences in existence, you’re seen as weak or inferior. You’re sort of cast aside, and people think you’re not ambitious enough. You must keep up this weird charade, this strange dog and pony show. You must keep up with the Joneses. You must make every part of life into a Facebook post. You must be constantly showing how perfect your family or partner is. You must participate in the game, lest you be left behind and devalued. It’s dystopian.

I remember being optimistic about technology as a kid in the 2000s-2010s. I remember believing we could solve so many problems and things would get better. Not anymore. In the year 2025, technology is not bringing us together. It is tearing us apart slowly each passing year because that’s simply what’s profitable. Making us more and more detached from our common humanity so we find solace in blind consumption. I just don’t see anything changing when psychopathic, delusional, underdeveloped, narcissistic, nepo-baby tech bros/CEOs have as much influence as they do. They are spreading a kind of literal modern day corporate eugenics/social Darwinism/neo-Nazism. Eroding the rule of law and human rights for profit. If you generate shareholder value, you are a valid human being who will survive. If you don’t, you’ll be indirectly murdered through forced poverty and starvation.

Like I really don’t get what the ruling elites’ end goal is with all of this. They’re already building bunkers, so they have a decent idea of what’s coming. Within decades we’re going to run out of oil and other non renewables. Are they just going to trash this planet and rebuild society on a terraformed Mars or moon? But what about when we trash those newer places with unregulated capitalism and resultant fascism? What then? Nothing will change or make our species truly advanced until we adopt BETTER, more equitable and sustainable economic models and energy management. Otherwise we’re simply spreading like a malignant tumor across the cosmos. In my opinion, and maybe I’m wrong, this is far more feasible short term than this braindead, blind, cult-like addiction to pointlessly shooting rockets up into the sky and wildly unrealistic fantasies of space travel.