We are living inside a collective dissociation, and we’ve mistaken it for progress. What we call normal today is built on contradiction, extraction, and moral collapse. The psychological cost is no longer subtle.

There is something quietly violent about the world we are being asked to accept as “normal.”

Not just unjust.
Not just broken.
But fundamentally split.

We live in an age of collective dissociation — where ethics are optional, cruelty is bureaucratized, and power is increasingly held by people who appear untouched by conscience.

This is not stability.
It is modern schizophrenia.

The Split We’re Living Inside

We are told to admire systems that contradict themselves at every turn.

Politicians speak of freedom while policing bodies and erasing rights.
Institutions claim moral authority while protecting abusers. Techno lords promise connection while engineering isolation, addiction, and surveillance. Soulless billionaires hoard obscene wealth in a world where suffering is treated as an acceptable byproduct.

Words float free from meaning.
Actions float free from consequence.

And somehow, we are expected to function inside this without breaking.

Fragmentation as Adaptation

Most people survive this by splitting.

One version of the self complies.
Another numbs out.
Another scrolls, distracts, performs.
Another knows — deep down — that something is profoundly wrong.

The soul, which requires coherence, is forced to fracture just to get through the day.

And when fragmentation becomes the norm, those who remain integrated — those who feel, question, and refuse to normalize brutality — are labeled unstable, emotional, unrealistic.

But the truth is the opposite:

Adapting to a sick system is not health. It is pathology.

Power Without Soul

What links corrupted politicians, fascists, racists, rapists, and techno lords isn’t ideology — it’s absence.\

An absence of remorse.
An absence of humility.
An absence of relationship to life.

This is power severed from soul.

Intelligence without ethics.
Ambition without reverence.
Optimization without care.

When conscience is removed, everything becomes a resource: land, bodies, attention, culture. Extraction replaces relationship. Dominance replaces belonging.

This is not progress.
It is predation with better branding.

The Psychological Cost

The explosion of anxiety, depression, addiction, and despair is not mysterious.

The psyche cannot live indefinitely inside contradiction.

The body cannot be told one story while living another.
The soul cannot thrive where truth is treated as a liability.

What we are witnessing is not individual weakness, but collective psychic injury.

The soul is knocking — sometimes as grief, sometimes as rage, sometimes as collapse.

Refusing the Split

To live with soul in this world is an act of refusal.

Refusing to normalize cruelty.
Refusing to confuse success with domination.
Refusing to trade integrity for comfort or silence for safety.

This refusal is rarely glamorous. It looks like slowing down. Like listening. Like naming what others avoid. Like choosing coherence over applause.

But coherence — alignment between what we feel, what we know, and how we act — is medicine in a fragmented age.

A Dangerous Wholeness

The future will not be shaped by those who optimize systems while hollowing out humanity.

It will be shaped — quietly, stubbornly — by those who refuse to become soulless in order to survive.

In a world that rewards fragmentation, wholeness is radical.

And soul — still — is the most dangerous thing you can have.