Why Everyone Is So Cruel Now - Mean Is the New Cool

You’re not here to fit into the story the world wrote for you. You’re here to write a different one entirely. If you’re building a life that actually fits your wiring, this is what you need: 🔥 Step 1 – Start here (it’s FREE), with A Guide for Those Who Won’t Fit In If you’ve spent your life feeling too different, too intense, too sensitive, too “out of line” for this world, this will help you understand why. 👉 Download “A Guide for Those Who Won’t Fit In”: https://monalazar.gumroad.com/l/guide... 🔥 Step 2 – Go deeper with The Fire Formula If you’re ready to stop shrinking yourself and actually build a life that fits your wiring, my book “The Fire Formula – How to Thrive in a World That Wasn’t Built for You” is here. 👉 Get "The Fire Formula" e-book: https://monalazar.gumroad.com/l/thefi... Sources: Thomas Hobbes: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ho... Arthur Schopenhauer: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sc... Emmanuel Levinas: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/le... John Suler: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1... Mark Fisher: https://research.gold.ac.uk/15808/ Christopher Lasch: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starte... Friedrich Nietzsche: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ni... Shoshana Zuboff: https://www.britannica.com/topic/surv... About this video: I watched a woman cry on the internet last week. Real tears, the kind that don't perform well because they're real — she was locking up her bakery for the last time, flour still on the apron, keys shaking in her hand. The top comment had 38,000 likes. It said "skill issue." We didn't suddenly become worse people. The capacity was always there. What changed is the venue, the economics, and the business model sitting on top of it all. This video traces seven thinkers to figure out how cruelty became a personality — Hobbes and Schopenhauer on the thin varnish of civilization, Levinas on what a screen does to the human face, Wendy Brown and Mark Fisher on what neoliberalism turns a neighbor into, Christopher Lasch on how therapy-speak got weaponized into permission for coldness, Freud and Nietzsche on what happens when a decade of pressure breaks the dam, and Shoshana Zuboff on the trillion-dollar industry that profits every time we bite each other. Not a lecture about being nicer online. An argument about why mean became cheap, safe, and profitable — and why the genuinely countercultural act now is to be kind when nobody's making you. Support my work: https://ko-fi.com/monalazar1111 ☕ Business inquiries: [email protected] 📧 #cruelty #internetculture #philosophy #onlineculture #socialcommentary #culturalcriticism #ressentiment #latecapitalism #moralphilosophy #digitalculture #empathy #cancelculture #socialmedia #modernsociety #criticaltheory