I agree, but the interesting question is why. And related, how. How is it that so many people have the time to write this stuff? I think the answer is pretty s

I agree, but the interesting question is why. And related, how. How is it that so many people have the time to write this stuff? I think the answer is pretty simple, actually: there is demand for writing that attacks the reader, and validates the reader's feelings of self-loathing. Ultimately its a form of narcissism, but of the negative sort. "I am the root of all the problems of the world," the reader wishes to be convinced of this, and given arguments to make the connection. It is a dangerous sort of narcissism too because its explicitly cloaked in the guise of compassion and guilt and shame. "Virtue signaling" is a part of it, but I think it goes much deeper, and is absurd in a way that few commentators have touched - except, maybe, for the latter seasons of South Park. It's a pity because there are good things to analyze and do at the systemic level to make life better for everyone. Particularly at the physical structural level, like designing cities for people and not cars, for sustainability and not financier profits. And there are good things to do at the personal level, like help a stranger in need, or recognize the real pain a thoughtless word may cause. But, because of the cognitive distortions that come with narcissism, these are also distorted, misused, and weaponized into a powerful tool of passive aggression. Perhaps a simple approach would be to challenge such people to do 10 things for every 1 thing they say.