it's endlessly frustrating watching people pick up on societal issues we face and, instead of interpreting it as systemic, blame it on a specific archetype of person that exists wrong and is destroying our communities from the inside out.
instead of child sexual abuse being interpreted as a result of ageism, power imbalances, the patriarchy, the failings of the nuclear family model and numerous institutions at large, and so on and so forth, it is now the work of the ever present pedxphxle ( o, i ) , simultaniously nobody you know and everybody you know at once, supposedly lurking on every street, every playground, and in whichever political party or minority you currently wish to slander.
instead of abuse and crime overall being the result of social circumstances, racism, sexism, and so on and so forth, it is now the narcissist, the sociopath, the psychopath, and whichever other scary, big word pop - psychology can get it's grubby hands on to sell you as many self - help books and youtube channels as they can.
do not fret, dear reader, the system isn't the problem, it is the secret monster hiding in your midst and we can help you identify and ostracize it, or so we will have you believe.
perhaps it is because believing that there is a common enemy that can be defeated and slaughtered is easier than working together to rebuild the systems which hold us back.
either way, the end is certain. if there is a specific type of individual, which represents all that is evil and wrong in the world, and we are to believe what we are told, that this very embodiment of malice is without hope and will always hurt people and never change, then what conclusion should we draw from that?
