People in modern society are becoming more and more individualistic, a trend that technology and capitalist firms are accelerating. As a result, people are losing their ability to communicate and solve problems through dialogue. This breakdown in communication leaves individuals psychologically vulnerable.
Some try to solve these issues by seeing psychologists, while many others turn to cats and dogs. The hyper-fixation on stray animals and the surge in keeping pets at home has become a global trend. Most of these individuals attempt to alleviate their stress and loneliness—even if they are married or have friends—by dedicating more and more attention to these animals. However, they are by no means true animal lovers; their behavior is irrational, as feeding stray animals turns them into dependent creatures unable to survive naturally on the streets. By doing so, they also disturb their neighbors. These supposed animal lovers often show hatred toward people who do not share their view, which makes them increasingly isolated and drives them to group exclusively with similarly irrational people.
They do not obey the rules that keep a society healthy and strong. An individual's freedom is limited by the freedom of others. For example, a person's desire to keep a barking dog inside a house is limited by their neighbor's right to live in peace and silence. The Golden Rule of ethics is the principle of reciprocity: treating others as you would want to be treated. These irrational individuals completely ignore this principle. Ultimately, because living in a single-family detached home is prohibitively expensive in major cities, these inconsiderate people can only afford to live in nice apartments because the overall structural cost is shared by their neighbors purchasing adjacent flats. Yet, they continue to value animals over the very humans who make their comfortable urban living possible in the first place.
Families used to gather around radios, and later around TVs. Today, every family member individually consumes their own content, interacting minimally within the confined space of the home. This miscommunication accelerates the irrational mindset, feeding into the problems discussed above.
The increase of Vegan population is also a result of this. Over thousands of years of evolution, different species evolved distinct anatomical and cognitive paths based on being omnivorous, carnivorous, or herbivorous, and humans evolved specifically to require animal-based nutrients. We are structurally what we eat. The complete elimination of animal protein from the diet directly alters the baseline chemical inputs needed for neural function; it alters how neurons connect with each other and communicate with one another. While the exact percentage of this impact can be debated, it is undoubtedly a significant factor. Limiting one's diet in this manner is by no means healthy. This underlying irrationalism results in becoming a Vegan, and this restricted diet directly impacts logical processing, creating a positive feedback loop that further feeds their irrationalism.
Such irrational mindsets easily form clusters and groups due to their low enthalpy. We can draw an analogy between states of mind and the thermodynamic energy states of matter. Just as substances in nature naturally tend toward a lower energy state, human groups tend toward a lower intellectual state. In this sense, irrationalism is an inevitable natural consequence.
Historically, Western countries tried to increase the enthalpy of their societies through education and institutional systems. Rational people act like high-energy materials; they do not easily nucleate and grow into uniform masses. On the other hand, individuals in a lower energy state can easily nucleate and cluster together. This is one of the primary reasons dictators accumulate strength and power so rapidly as generations shift.
Unfortunately, breaking these low-energy social bonds and adding enthalpy back into the system is difficult and painful. When societies are ruled by these low-energy clusters, war becomes inevitable. These rulers initiate disputes around the world and support similar regimes to consolidate power. They mistakenly believe that green wood will not catch fire despite their continuous sparking, but global irrationalism dries the wood from the inside out until it eventually ignites. Only after the devastation of such global conflicts do societies regain their energy state, and with it, their rationalism.












