A society that fails to value communality—our need to belong, to care for one another, and to feel caring energy flowing toward us—is a society facing away from the essence of what it means to be human. Pathology cannot but ensue. To say so is not a moral assertion but an objective assessment. “When people start to lose a sense of meaning and get disconnected, that’s where disease comes from, that’s where breakdown in our health—mental, physical, social health—occurs,” the psychiatrist and neuroscientist Bruce Perry told me. If a gene or virus were found that caused the same impacts on the population’s well-being as disconnection does, news of it would bellow from front-page headlines. Because it transpires on so many levels and so pervasively, we almost take it for granted; it is the water we swim in. We are steeped in the normalized myth that we are, each of us, mere individuals striving to attain private goals. The more we define ourselves that way, the more estranged we become from vital aspects of who we are and what we need to be healthy.

Dislocation, in Bruce’s formulation, describes a loss of connection to self, to others, and to a sense of meaning and purpose—all of which appear on the roster of essential needs above. Lest the word “dislocation” conjure something hazy like “being lost,” he is quick with a graphic metaphor. “Think of a dislocated shoulder,” he said, “a shoulder disarticulated, out of joint. You didn’t cut off the arm, but it’s just hanging there and not working anymore. Useless. That’s how dislocated people experience themselves. It’s excruciatingly painful.”

Most people want to believe what authority tells them, because if the authority is misleading them, then the whole universe is at fault, isn't it?
It's like questioning the verdicts of trials - the moment you start doing that, people will recoil, and quite reasonably: because if these things can go wrong, then where is justice? Where is just government, where is competent government?
If the government can do something as olympically stupid as our government did five years ago [lockdown in 2020], then how can we trust our government again? - Which, I have to say, is a rather good question. People do not want to wander into that particular desert where you look all around you and see there's nothing except frightening monsters and ruins. It's not an appealing place to be, and I don't blame people for recoiling from it. Nonetheless, I wish they would be more sceptical of what authority tells them.
- Peter Hitchens, British journalist

The cornerstone of those [propaganda] narratives are extremely simple, very simplistic and they also contradict themselves repeatedly.

For example, in the war narrative against Russia it is currently said, on one hand, that the Russians are the greatest threat to Europe since the existence of the continent, worse than the Soviet Union and so on. At the same time it was repeatedly said over the long period that "no, Russia is weak, the army is running away, they can't do anything, they are losers". And both had to be believed simultaneously.

There were similiar contradictions with COVID: like "the vaccine saves us, but everyone must have it, otherwise it doesn't work". That's a direct contradiction. But I've noticed that it becomes part of the narrative's dogma which isn't questioned.

- Dr. Jonas Tögel (source)

подвиг — Заимствование из старославянского, где было образовано от подвигнутися – "потрудиться; совершить подвиг". К той же основе восходят и слова двинуть, двигать.
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Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

There is always gonna be that awkward period where you're working hard, and you're investing time, and you're investing energy, and nothing is happening, nothing is changing, nothing is being accomplished.And honestly, almost everything in life is like that. <...>

It takes faith and patience and a lot of durability to weather that storm. Because that storm is gonna happen.This isn't gonna be a quick fix, this isn't gonna be something that overnight changes your life. You have to be willing to see that through to the other side, there is just no other way.

You've gotta be willing to know that it's gonna feel like nothing at first.The first day you decide to do this, you're not going to wake up the next day thinking, 'Oh my gosh, I'm on the right track, I'm getting better, this is awesome!'
It's gonna be a while, friend. And you're gonna question it every day. You're gonna think, 'Why the hack am I doing this?' It was easier before, it was better before; at least I had those little moments, those little escapes before; now I have nothing. Because I'm just doing it, making those little changes not knowing if they'll accomplish anything.

But then at some point, I don't know when - different timeline for everybody - but at some point you're going to feel it just a little; you're going to feel this teeny little spark of "is that even real? Is something happening here? Is something changing here?"