The political elite do not bear the burden of their failures—we do.  Humanity is not progressing; we are regressing, surrendering the very qualities that once set us apart in the natural world.  We were rational, independent beings.  Now, we are docile, compliant, and disconnected from our essence.  Society has become a psychological zoo, with humans willingly stepping into cages they neither understand nor see.

Look into the eyes of a lion behind bars.  Few would argue it’s better off than its wild counterpart.  Yet here we are, voluntarily caged by the illusions of comfort and security offered by the political and cultural shepherds of our time.  The madness gripping the masses is not the madness of the visionary or the rebel—it is a hysteria rooted in dependency and fear.

Once, humans thrived amidst chaos and uncertainty.  Our ancestors embraced life’s risks and made greatness from them.  Today, we clutch at authority, pleading for order and reassurance.  The shepherds we cling to don’t protect, they dominate.  They wield not staffs but bureaucratic systems and laws designed to punish dissent and crush individuality.  Beneath the surface, the soul screams for freedom, yet the mind clings to the false safety of the herd.

Civilization, in its modern form, is not nurturing humanity—it is poisoning it.  Our instincts, the primal compass that once guided us, are being systematically bred out.  This is the machinery of domestication at work.  It doesn’t whip us into submission, it coaxes us with illusions of peace and progress.  The sorcerers of the modern age weave spells to convince us that this is what we want: a life of convenience at the cost of vitality, conformity over creativity, safety over sovereignty.

To examine unhappiness is to glimpse a deeper truth: it is our caging, our domestication, that fuels our misery.  The process has turned us against ourselves.  It whispers that salvation lies in idols—political leaders, societal ideals, technological marvels—that demand loyalty but evade accountability.  These idols thrive on our doubt and dependency, perpetuating the very systems that keep us enslaved.

Humanity’s domestication is not just a state of being, it’s a crisis of identity.  The herd, emboldened by numbers, acts in ways no individual would dare.  The collective madness grows, and with it comes an inevitable reckoning—a backlash, a whiplash, as the suppressed passions of the herd erupt uncontrollably.  This is the cycle of domestication and rebellion, an endless spiral unless the individual chooses to step outside the cage.

To restore balance, we must de-domesticate.  The path forward is not through the comforts of captivity but through the hard-won trials of freedom.  Only by shedding the chains of conformity and reclaiming our instincts can humanity hope to regain its place as the rational, creative force it was meant to be.  The question is not whether the cage will hold—it is whether we will break free before it is too late.

Reference

Friedrich Nietzsche; Thus Spoke Zarathustra