even the successes are distorted to the point of insanity

Naturally, the emphasis is on the negativities … the exploitations and oppressions and gross injustices in a situation prone to treat nameless Others without empathy … but mass society distorts everything, including the positivities.

People strive for success. Some, with talent, effort, and luck, attain Success and some, with Talent, Effort, and Luck attain a degree of success that’s insane. A problem for those people is that they naturally tend to have a sense that they deserve such. They’re So High, So Above. Somewhere inside they know better. But the masses experience an admixture of worship and envy. The situation sets up standards for young people that are insane. Preoccupying. It sets a tone of disregard and disrespect for just people living just lives … which is 99.9% of all people.

The distortions of Wealth, Power, Celebrity, Aggrandizement are toxic.

It’s disconcerting, disorienting to live within a context where the metrics, standards, goals are insane-scale.