Individualism/sense of self

Social media, society, media has created this push for an age of individualism and sense of self.

What we don't see as people is the destruction of community and communal values when these walls are torn apart.

We must have a sense of understanding and self, but to enhance communal relationships as a community is also built based on need, the need of many talents.

While diversity is preached in the streets and on the corporate networks of this country, we as a people accept more and possibly have a more diverse mindset, but manys lives are indicative of the individualistic mindset.

There's certainly a spiritual component here, but this same identity crisis of self vs community is playing out around us.

As many continue to live lives through screens, as I am actively demonstrating and hypocritically taking part in, we move further away from ideals and learned understanding through community to opinions formed through narratives that play out in the corners of our heads, that then dictate the actions that play out in our world.

We were meant to be individuals to enhance the world, but individualism in 2022 is to enhance our posture or cause, and that sometimes seems it.  Cause and opinion are replacing community and action.

The pandemic did something to me, I can't lie.  But who are we to let it take our societies as it was meant to take our health.