The economy, social behavior, investing and most aspects of human society are “reflexive”. People modulate their behavior and outlook based on what they think

The economy, social behavior, investing and most aspects of human society are “reflexive”. People modulate their behavior and outlook based on what they think other people think. Going even deeper, people absorb way more from other people than they first let on or realize. Over time, their own thoughts adapt to whatever’s in their RAM and they believe they truly believe what their brain produced. This leads them to have a greater conviction in their beliefs which leads to actions that further propagate that belief. There have been several events in the last few years that have altered people’s internal sense of security and hope. With social media, people are far more exposed to the sentiment of other peers as opposed to a leader (or book) who would otherwise be responsible for reframing traumatic events. The decision makers aren’t immune to these influences. So on multiple levels, society is regressing towards the mean. Furthermore, the mean is also decreasing due to real reflexive effects in the economy and people’s sense of well being. So a greater mass of people are content with not being as good as they were before. Society will have to get fairly deep into the abyss before it realizes it hates being there and an exceptional leader will have to show everyone a path out of it. People won’t realize that they caused the situation in the first place but only be focused on first order effects such as how bad they feel or how much money they have. The sentiment that things are futile seems to have already captured you. The only thing you can do now is to realize the first thing you need to do is insulate yourself from being bludgeoned into mediocrity by all the noise around you if you want to effect any material change.