Anxious Society
The Conflict
The unjustified actions for oneself, and the positive behavioral reinforcement from other members around him, causes a conflict in oneself. It's an unknown anxiety—a worry that doesn't know itself or its cause.
Consider drinking or smoking as a social habit. It's harmful—this is not debatable. But the circle normalizes it. Celebrates it, even. The individual may never question it because everyone around him treats it as standard behavior. He drinks. He smokes. Not because he chose to, but because belonging chose for him.
And something inside registers the conflict—unnamed, unexamined. The body knows it's harm. The group says it's fine. This gap creates an anxiety that has no words.
The behavior is reinforced. He does it again. The internal conflict stays buried under the noise of approval.
This repeated anxiety manifests itself, and in addition to the reinforcement of unjustified actions for oneself, compounds over time. Even more, it's being distributed to cause the same effect on other members. The one who drank to belong now offers the drink to the next person. The cycle spreads.
The victim and supporter of the system, who's being praised every day to stay how he is.
This one right here causes an anxious society.
The Danger of an Anxious Society
An anxious society loses direction.
This anxiety is a state where individuals don't know what to do—despite the presence of many things to do. The individual cannot decide due to the differences of rewards, or even the up-front initial discomfort of getting started.
This causes people to seek answers. But the answers themselves give an on-top-of-that anxiety, due to not being practical and actionable.
And the devil is there too—giving answers that serve the individual just in the short term moment, making it a debt the individual has to pay. In such cases, addiction is formed, making the answer given by the devil more compelling.
The Destructive Cycle
Due to the compounding force that doesn't know good or bad, the sufferings become bigger.
The danger state is the death of the personal pronoun and the morality—causing a destructive cycle that seems like there is no way out.
More anxiety. More short-term relief. More dependence.
That's just for reinforcing that the answer provided by the devil is "real"
The Way Out
The best movement should be around finding the answer for oneself—not giving the power to anyone other than one's self.