Some thoughts on Alt-right Trolling.

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15. Interesting. I wonder about the inner psychology: what is culture suppressing?

Carl Jung has the insight that when particular urges or aspects of personality are suppressed, they will find a way to express themselves in unhealthy, distorted ways.

Seems to me there’s a distorted sense of “brotherhood” apparent. Healthy brotherhood is actively suppressed in our society. School is mostly about individual effort and individual reward, as we sit along side 30 other people working on the same tasks ALONE. Helping each other succeed is cheating. The word “solidarity” is a bad word, in America. We are supposed to put ourselves against others, and work hard to earn stuff for ourselves.

There are very many anxious “lone wolves” looking for a pack to which they can belong.

A sense of purpose? A space for their voices to feel heard?

Young men in some cultures have a path to adulthood that depends on proving their worth by passing some test that requires bravery and competence, and at the end they are rewarded with acceptance and being recognized as a “man”.

For many, the path forward seems like a track to nowhere, in disrepair. Many certainly seem aimless.

Does anyone else find that watching some (definitely not all) young men around them flounder toward adulthood as watching a trainwreck in slow motion? It is a precarious journey and many seem confused about what is expected of them socially.