Wokeness
The smart-phone and the social media awakened narcissism in people. They started to lose their belief in an all-knowing God, replacing it with the technology that monitored their wants and needs and provided them with instant knowledge of the good and bad, true and false. They started to post selfies and anonymous rude comments. This power in their pockets gave them a false sense of superiority. Those with leftist ideological political leanings felt a need to help make a better world and save the planet. They proudly claimed to be woke - awakened and enlightened. They were very sensitive to all the oppression they witnessed. They saw that the privileged rich white men were in the past oppressing the slaves and robbing the third world of its resources, were also oppressing females, homosexuals, and all marginalized minorities. They believed that all oppression must be stopped. This belief became a new religion and spread like a virus. Preference to collectivism and groupthin...