r/TheMirrorCult

>"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -LBJ

Looking down on the libs? Looking down on Maga? Jews? Doesn't matter to the ruling class, it only matters that your distracted and giving them your resources.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but maybe you are not “mentally ill” for struggling to adapt to a society that is itself profoundly unwell.

You are living in a world where exploitation is normalized, greed is rewarded, poverty is treated like a moral failure, human beings are reduced to economic output, and cruelty is constantly reframed as strength.

Maybe your exhaustion is not weakness.
Maybe your anxiety is not irrational.
Maybe your grief, alienation, rage, and inability to feel at home in this system are evidence that something human in you is still alive.

A truly sick society will always pathologize the people who refuse to become numb to it.