Modern education: You sit down and passively accept what the teacher tells you. You're trained to memorize and re-write their words over and over again. If you try to meaningfully interact with the subject matter or analyze it using your own brain, you fail.

Modern entertainment: Media. You're watching other people's lives on social media. Watching other people play sports instead of being active yourself. Worshipping politicians without being involved in your own local community. Hunched over, watching stories on a screen while your own life passes you by. Scrolling TikTok, filling each moment with vapid entertainment that gets forgotten as soon as it passes. Empty moments turn into empty days and years and decades. You look back and can't remember who you even are or why it would even matter.

Modern love: The loneliest generation in history. Birth rates collapsing across the board. People who grew up with the internet spend more time watching other people have sex than doing it themselves, and it's not even close. Staring at a screen, waiting for her to text back. And for what? Are you going to get a wife out of it? Probably not. Dating has become another "market-based form of entertainment" like everything else in this world.

Modern work: No such thing as a vocation. You're told when to wake up, when to clock in, when you're allowed to use the restroom. Under constant surveillance. Your every move is documented and studied so a faceless conglomerate can squeeze every bit of productivity out of you. Meaningless tasks, working all day without building or practically accomplishing anything that benefits real people. Just another cog in a soulless machine. People take this system for granted and being a man is now synonymous with being a slave.

Modern government: Our sacred democracy, where elections are rigged, the media is fake and public opinion is scrupulously managed by interested parties. The government taxes you for literally every interaction with the world. You don't get to own your own property outright under any circumstances. This is compensated with the ability to vote for token opposition that gets ruthlessly bogged down by the intrenched state if they ever try to reform anything. You also have no right to privacy. Every citizen is treated like a suspect even if they've done nothing wrong.

The modern world has become cucked.