The full article linked below succinctly sums up the sense of helplessness that many are feeling in the modern society that has been thrust upon us. It was written three years ago in 2016.

Currently, as of May 2019, in my opinion the title should be updated to..

The world HAS GONE crazy...

If you are feeling personally strange trying to comprehend the new times that are showing themselves, this article may help you understand the reasons.

There is, I caution you, some rude language in the article.

here's an excerpt--

"This is our brave new world. When all information is freely available at the click of a mouse, our attention naturally nosedives into the sickest and most grotesque we can find. And the sickest and most grotesque similarly finds its way to the top of the nation’s consciousness, dominating our attention and the news cycle, dividing and recruiting us into its ever more polarized camps.

We become only exposed to the most extreme negative aspects of certain groups of people, giving us a skewed view of how other people in the world really think, act, and live. When we are exposed to police, we only see the worst 0.1% of police. When we are exposed to poor African Americans, we’re only exposed to the worst 0.1% of poor African Americans. When we’re exposed to Muslim immigrants, we only hear about the worst 0.1% of Muslim immigrants. When we are exposed to chauvinist, shitty white men, we’re only exposed to the worst 0.1%, and when we’re exposed to angry and entitled social justice warriors, we’re only exposed to the worst 0.1%.
We have all seen dozens of photos like this on the internet, while people like this probably make up 1/10000th of the population.
We’ve all seen dozens of photos like this on the internet, while people like this probably make up 1/10000th of the population.

As a result, it feels as though everyone is an angry fucking extremist and is full of hate and violence and the world is coming undone thread by thread, when the truth is that most of the population occupies a silent middle ground and is actually probably not in so much disagreement with one another.

We demonize each other. We judge groups of people by their weakest and most depraved members. And to protect ourselves from the overreaching judgments of others, we consolidate into our own clans and tribes, we take refuge in our own precious identity politics and we buy more and more into a worldview that is disconnected from cold data and hard facts."

It is well worth reading the full article... It's only about a 15 minute read..

https://markmanson.net/crazy-world