Ideology Drives Loneliness
Loneliness, the common ground for terror, the essence of totalitarian government, and for ideology or logicality, the preparation of its executioners and victims, is closely connected with uprootedness and superfluousness which have been the curse of modern masses since the beginning of the industrial revolution and have become acute with the rise of imperialism at the end of the last century and the break-down of political institutions and social traditions in our own time.
Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism
Ideology, when pushed beyond practical experience and hard-won historical wisdom, leads to fragmentation and loneliness. This seems to be true for all points on the political compass.
Capitalists don't see people. They see individual units of labor with no cohesive culture or value system beyond abstracted production.
Digitalists, similarly, conflate clicks, likes, and impressions with humanity. In doing so they have connected the world but pushed us farther apart.
Liberal globalists have opened up the free flow of goods, but have destroyed the rootedness of people's across the world.
Multiculturalists use the language of inclusion as a cudgel. They're intersectionality cuts us up into smaller and smaller groups.
As these ideologies have achieved ascendancy in our modern world, we've lost true connection. We've forgotten our history. And we've been uprooted from our place.
It's no wonder it feels like various forms of extremism are the only political outlet left to the masses.