The Peak of Individualism
The concept of the individual, meaning the indivisible, like the idea of the atom a hundred years ago, is facing a big bang. Once the forces within the individual are released, for example, dopamine and different parts of the brain, there could be an entirely new motivation for people, and a new source of social energy. Until then, feminism is breaking down the molecule of society - the family - and then the chemical bond of couplehood itself. Meanwhile, the aging population will contribute to the breakdown of an even more basic chemical bond - parenthood
By: The Second Wave of Infantilism
Feminism has reduced equality between men and women in relationships. Once, power dynamics were personality-based relationships between a man and a woman. Because everyone was stuck together. In fact, there were no power dynamics because there was a division of roles. The sexes lived in two parallel planes, comparable only to themselves. The institutionalization of relationships neutralizes power dynamics, like in the Middle Ages when all relationships were regulated and each side had advantages and disadvantages without quantitative comparison, only qualitative.
But the moment the man was socially stronger, and relationships were shaken, thanks to the modern era, men became infantile in sex, as if they were the enjoying side looking for a mother. And now that power dynamics have reversed, women can afford to behave infantile, because they are the desired side, and therefore looking for a father, and men make an effort. If Freud were alive today, Oedipus would be reversed. That is, the stronger you are, the more infantile, passive you become. Strength corrupts. You need to make less effort and shape reality to meet your needs - and a man will meet the needs of the woman.
Therefore, women have become little girls thanks to feminism. Whereas before, men were little boys. Today, feminism is no longer the threat, but infantilism is. The movement for children's rights, and everything revolving around them. And in the end, neither the man nor the woman but the child is the strongest in the new family. And that's what is discovered when becoming parents, and the anger towards the child is directed by the woman towards the man, and vice versa, because it's forbidden to be angry at the child. And all this happens because society values children more than adults, and the future over the present, and worships the future. So feminism is the previous war.
And the next stage is animal rights, plants, and inanimate objects (computers). What increases equality in society reduces equality in relationships, and vice versa. Actually, marriage for everyone increased equality in society. Everyone was married and that's it. Giving up on a truly equal relationship, and treating women as little girls, is the male disillusionment with feminism, which supposedly wanted equality. But in the end, feminism created more selfish women. Not more cultured and smart, but hedonistic. Without the sacrifice of mothers and wives, but also without what replaces it. The last agreed-upon value is children, and even that is being challenged. Therefore, within a few generations, there will be strong selection against selfishness. Because such people won't have children. Unlike the past before contraception. But in the meantime, there will be a general regression of people to infantilism. To whiny discourse. Foolish. That doesn't take responsibility. And is not willing to sacrifice and restrain.
The next stage, with the aging of the population, will be an opposite trend, pro-old age. Because people will simply be old. Because there won't be enough children in society. And there will be a preference for the elderly, who will be the majority. And stronger than in the past. Health expenses will soar, investments, and the fear of death will return to culture in a big way. When a system goes out of balance, there are dialectical reactions and counter-reactions until a new equilibrium is reached. The moment people can have children alone, themselves, in a kind of cloning, then everyone will raise themselves as a child. A child identical to them, maybe with improvements. And this will be the family structure. Parent and child. And what will die is couplehood.
That is, after the disappearance of family and love, couplehood will also disappear, which was a basic component in the human world. And the sibling relationship will become the most important "blood" relationship in society. That is, individualism will reach the radical logic of one person instead of a couple, also sexually, and the next stage will be the breakdown of the single person. Like the process of splitting the atom. At first, we went down to molecules of nuclear family. And then there will be the splitting of the brain atom, which will stop working as a unified and unitary system, and will break down into components. That is, it's not that the individual will agree to give up on himself one day and become part of the network - but that by then the individual himself will break down into a network. And then individualism will be blamed for all the ills of the world, just like chauvinism, and rightly so.