postyX - Loneliness, Isolation, and the Collapse of Real Community

00:00:00.000 Hello everyone and welcome back to episode two of the inner monologue series or lack of inner monologue series.

00:00:07.020 Today we are going to talk about loneliness, isolation and the collapse of real community.

00:00:15.240 Nearly and we're actually, we're going to get right into it. I know the last video I did a, you know, update and stuff like that.

00:00:21.460 I'll do a quick run through. I am going to be, this is a four part series. This is some short form content.

00:00:27.640 I will be uploading more and more short form content, as well as doing live streams. I'm also going to be doing live streams, subscriber only live streams, once a week, where I can be a little bit more uncensored, even though Rumble is pretty uncensored.

00:00:42.960 And we're going to try to work at doing nationalism full time, because I really feel like if you can't put in and just the way society is right now, like you can't really put in all the time into it and still maintain a normal job.

00:00:56.820 So we're going to try. We'll see how it goes. So that is the short version of the little speech I gave in the first episode. But we're on to number two. And like I said, this one is loneliness, isolation and the collapse of real communities.

00:01:13.060 There's a statistic that says nearly 90% of Gen Z or Gen Z feels lonely.

00:01:21.940 Half have never actually even known real romantic partnership.

00:01:26.460 And these numbers are not just sad.

00:01:28.960 They are a national emergency for any person or any people who wish to survive as a distinct nation.

00:01:37.380 And this is something that nationalists are pushing all the time.

00:01:40.100 And I do understand that it is a lot harder than it looks like for someone, you know, that is maybe in middle age or boomers, especially just assume that this should happen as naturally as it did for us.

00:01:54.280 And it's not that case.

00:01:55.500 So I guess we have to have a little bit of empathy for our Gen Z guys out there and girls, because it really is a struggle out there.

00:02:03.500 we live in the most technologically connected era, yet our young people have never felt more

00:02:11.200 isolated from their own kin and culture. And of course, COVID did a huge number on everybody

00:02:17.520 in regards to this, especially the kids. They, you know, had no choice but to do everything

00:02:23.480 online. I mean, before that, they were still doing a lot online, but it became to the point

00:02:28.180 where they weren't even going to school in person anymore. Everything was online. So it definitely

00:02:32.220 removes you from those relationships, the IRL, you know, interactions and stuff like that with

00:02:40.140 your own kin, and it removes you from your culture. Plurality of Canadians report few or no close

00:02:48.260 friends, and I can probably even include myself in that, again, due to COVID. Holidays feel empty,

00:02:55.440 apartments are solitary cells. Robert Putnam, I don't know if you wrote the book, but the trends

00:03:01.300 he talked about, it was called bowling alone. So the trends Robert Putnam warned about have been

00:03:08.480 turbocharged by screens in an age of open borders and cultural dilution. Why? We've offshored real

00:03:16.400 life to platforms that reward atomization over organic community. Eight to nine hours daily of

00:03:22.940 recreational screens before school or work. Social media exploits status-seeking, and

00:03:30.440 this is especially prevalent among young women, or women in general. Well, real third places where

00:03:37.660 our peoples once met, they courted, they built families, they have all kind of withered away.

00:03:43.500 Church, community clubs, all these kinds of things, even going to, you know, the bar, like that has

00:03:49.380 probably reduced greatly since definitely since the covid scam now add rapid demographic

00:03:56.800 transformation through the mass immigration that we've been experiencing and the shared trust in

00:04:02.120 common culture needed for deep bonds it evaporates totally and we're going to watch a video from uh

00:04:10.040 this youtuber well it's actually an interview it's andre white but it's an interview with

00:04:15.740 Simon Sinek. It's called Inside Quest, and it's very short, but it talks about the addiction to

00:04:23.920 technology and how it's ruining lives across here. So we're going to pop that in, and then we'll get

00:04:29.380 back to it. We know that engagement with social media and our cell phones releases a chemical

00:04:36.780 called dopamine. That's why when you get a text, it feels good, right? So, you know, we've all had

00:04:41.660 it where you're feeling a little bit down or feeling a bit lonely, and so you send out 10

00:04:44.660 text to 10 friends, you know, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Because it feels good when you get a response,

00:04:50.920 right? Right? It's why we count the likes. It's why we go back 10 times to see if, and if it's

00:04:57.240 going, if my Instagram is growing slower, did I do something wrong? Do they not like me anymore,

00:05:02.380 right? The trauma for young kids to be unfriended, right? Because we know when you get it, you get a

00:05:08.440 hit of dopamine, which feels good. It's why we like it. It's why we keep going back to it.

00:05:11.960 dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes us feel good when we smoke when we

00:05:16.520 drink and when we gamble in other words it's highly highly addictive right we

00:05:24.320 have age restrictions on smoking gambling and alcohol and we have no age

00:05:30.720 restrictions on social media and cell phones which is the equivalent of

00:05:33.860 opening up the liquor cabinet and saying to our teenagers hey by the way this

00:05:37.460 adolescence thing, if it gets you down. But that's basically what's happening. That's basically what's

00:05:44.160 happening, right? That's basically what's happening. You have an entire generation that has access to an

00:05:47.920 addictive, numbing chemical called dopamine through social media and cell phones as they're going

00:05:52.980 through the high stress of adolescence. Why is this important? Almost every alcoholic discovered

00:05:59.140 alcohol when they were teenagers. When we're very, very young, the only approval we need is the

00:06:03.620 approval of our parents. And as we go through adolescence, we make this transition where we

00:06:07.740 now need the approval of our peers. Very frustrating for our parents, very important for us. It allows

00:06:13.620 us to acculturate outside of our immediate families into the broader tribe, right? It's a

00:06:18.040 highly, highly stressful and anxious period of our lives, and we're supposed to learn to rely

00:06:23.200 on our friends. Some people quite by accident discover alcohol and numbing effects of dopamine

00:06:28.820 brain to help them cope with the stresses and anxieties of adolescents. Unfortunately,

00:06:34.460 that becomes hardwired in their brains. And for the rest of their lives, when they suffer

00:06:38.000 significant stress, they will not turn to a person, they will turn to the bottle. Social

00:06:42.620 stress, financial stress, career stress, that's pretty much the primary reasons why an alcoholic

00:06:46.680 drinks, right? What's happening is because we're allowing unfettered access to these

00:06:51.920 dopamine-producing devices and media, basically it's becoming hardwired. And what we're seeing

00:06:56.580 is as they grow older, too many kids don't know how to form deep meaningful relationships.

00:07:03.180 Their words, not mine.

00:07:04.300 They will admit that many of their friendships are superficial.

00:07:07.340 They will admit that their friends, that they don't count on their friends, they don't

00:07:11.100 rely on their friends, they have fun with their friends, but they also know that their

00:07:14.560 friends will cancel on them if something better comes along.

00:07:17.140 Deep meaningful relationships are not there because they never practice the skill set

00:07:20.520 and worse, they don't have the coping mechanisms to deal with stress.

00:07:23.860 So when significant stress starts to show up in their lives, they're not turning to

00:07:27.540 a person, they're turning to a device, they're turning to social media, they're turning to

00:07:32.360 these things which offer temporary relief.

00:07:34.480 We know, the science is clear, we know that people who spend more time on Facebook suffer

00:07:38.380 higher rates of depression than people who spend less time on Facebook.

00:07:42.020 These things balance.

00:07:43.600 Alcohol is not bad, too much alcohol is bad.

00:07:45.980 Gambling is fun, too much gambling is dangerous.

00:07:49.040 There's nothing wrong with social media and cell phones, it's the imbalance.

00:07:53.080 If you're sitting at dinner with your friends and you're texting somebody who's not there,

00:07:59.480 that's a problem.

00:08:00.480 That's an addiction.

00:08:01.420 If you're sitting in a meeting with people you're supposed to be listening to and speaking

00:08:04.800 and you put your phone on the table, face up or face down, I don't care, that sends

00:08:10.480 a subconscious message to the room that you're just not that important to me right now.

00:08:15.260 That's what happens.

00:08:16.260 And the fact that you cannot put it away is because you are addicted.

00:08:19.660 If you wake up and you check your phone before you say good morning to your girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse, you have an addiction.

00:08:25.340 And like all addiction, in time, it'll destroy relationships, it'll cost time, and it'll cost money, and it'll make your life worse.

00:08:32.660 The human cost is staggering.

00:08:35.440 Doubled suicide and depression rates among teenage girls post-smartphones.

00:08:40.460 One in three with major depressive episodes, skyrocketing virginity rates.

00:08:45.620 again as far as the the moods go and the mental illness goes and depression and that i also think

00:08:52.880 a lot of the medication probably doesn't help with that especially birth control

00:08:56.140 however you know this society is different now right this has been going on for probably 40 50

00:09:02.560 years young women chase careers and then yearn for families in a fractured society and we see

00:09:08.280 this a lot too this is when the woman has a come to jesus moment in their 30s or late 30s early 40s

00:09:14.700 And they realize that it might be too late for them to have children and they feel like they've basically thrown their entire, you know, reproductive years away on chasing some kind of corporate, you know, status or something that really, at the end of the day, doesn't do anything for your people, your folk.

00:09:33.120 And it doesn't make you a better person or feel any better about it.

00:09:37.420 Young men are disconnected from meaningful roles serving their nation and people and they withdraw entirely.

00:09:44.700 they feel like they have no purpose. This directly fuels declining native fertility,

00:09:50.520 which is the ultimate threat to our sovereignty and our identity.

00:09:55.560 In Canada and the broader West, we traded thick ancestral communities for thin,

00:10:01.500 rootless globalism. And what has been the result of that? A people less willing to defend their

00:10:07.200 homeland, build for posterity, or resist the replacement that we're experiencing.

00:10:12.280 Strong nations arise from connected, high-trust peoples who invest locally because they see their future in their children and their neighbours.

00:10:23.720 And at this point, we're going to watch another video on social media addiction.

00:10:29.800 This is actually the story and the solutions, but I think we all kind of know the solutions.

00:10:35.540 But we're going to put at least some of this video in there, at least the important parts.

00:10:39.780 and we're going to cover or let you see what they have to say

00:10:43.880 about the social media addiction.

00:10:45.700 This is by Dr. Christine Heim on YouTube.

00:10:48.880 In 2007, Apple released the iPhone.

00:10:52.200 It was the first all-in-one phone, iPad and internet communicator.

00:10:56.380 It was a game changer.

00:10:58.480 By 2011, 35% of adults owned a smartphone.

00:11:02.980 By 2021, it was 85%.

00:11:07.380 Now, 35% of users check it more than 50 times a day.

00:11:12.260 98% of Gen Z own one, and it's a billion-dollar market winner.

00:11:17.380 Fine, look, don't get me wrong.

00:11:18.820 It's a wonderful device.

00:11:19.900 I have one, but I keep it off because it has deadly side effects.

00:11:24.380 That's why Silicon Valley CEOs banned their own children from using it.

00:11:29.700 It's addictive.

00:11:30.660 In my office, I see amazing young minds addicted to smartphones, to social media, likes, notifications, the pleasure.

00:11:39.840 They get hungrier and hungrier, like they're never satisfied, eating eye candy, getting so interested in trivia,

00:11:46.960 trying to get their self-esteem cups filled, trying to get acceptance, but feeling empty inside.

00:11:52.920 That's addiction and dopamine overdose.

00:11:55.760 look smartphone and social media combination is such a winner because it's so addictive

00:12:03.840 through dopamine pleasure images catchy sounds a ding to say that somebody wants my attention

00:12:09.620 somebody likes me images that are mind-blowing they're really fantastic but

00:12:14.680 it's just too much way too much of a good thing it's addictive in the same way that drugs gambling

00:12:22.640 and porn are addictive. Dopamine release in the brain's reward system. This really is selling

00:12:29.460 addiction. Many of us are addicted and you can tell when you start to complain about having less

00:12:33.880 time, less friends and being lonelier. Well, where did your time go? Where did your friends go?

00:12:41.520 How did you get to be lonelier when the population's rising and we're more connected?

00:12:46.240 We're being sold a lie here.

00:12:48.740 Internet addiction eats up your time.

00:12:51.260 Likes, news feeds, movies, hit series, and very interesting opinion pieces on current affairs.

00:12:57.080 This all smashes your brain with information, image, entertainment overload.

00:13:02.460 It's a recognized psychological disorder.

00:13:06.140 So as a psychiatrist, here's what I think is going on.

00:13:09.940 This all taps into deep human needs.

00:13:12.300 the need to know to be accepted to explore and develop an identity and even that core need to

00:13:18.740 try to find out what life is all about people think the answer to that question is actually

00:13:23.460 on the internet this is what leads to people sleeping with their phones rather than with

00:13:28.440 somebody that they love people waking up to check their news feeds and likes instead of

00:13:33.160 saying good morning to a human being it cuts off human connection people even use toilet time to

00:13:40.340 stay connected. They'd rather race home to surf the net rather than surfing the waves or to play

00:13:45.540 out in the streets. Or they'll diligently practice a video game rather than diligently pass college

00:13:53.040 exams. I've seen it in my work and it saddens me. It saddens me deeply. People live life through a

00:14:03.320 three by six inch brick window. They don't experience life. This technology promised us a

00:14:09.200 bigger world but for some it's delivered a world about as big as your bedroom you don't have to

00:14:14.780 leave many people don't secondhand lives robbed of identity life and real friends and this is all 0.69

00:14:22.880 an addiction sold as a sexy must-have product I'll quote some studies here young adults are

00:14:29.700 more comfortable being online than at a party that's not my opinion that's from a study young

00:14:35.000 people said that we actually like our smartphones more than we like people. Thanks to smartphones

00:14:40.740 and dopamine, more young adults see less people, go out less, talk less, party less and have less

00:14:46.780 sex. Yeah, even a cord drive like sex is being squashed. Studies show that people have less sex

00:14:53.980 because they're watching screens more. Is that the sort of life we want for ourselves, for future

00:14:59.640 generations? I don't think so. Okay, let's take a look inside the brain. Never before in the history

00:15:05.860 of humankind have we been so absorbed by a tool with such a narrow focus. Our eyes, our ears,

00:15:12.900 they're concentrated on a screen just a few inches away. So our brains adapt. We lose peripheral

00:15:18.560 vision, peripheral hearing. The brain's thalamus shuts out the rest of the world so you don't

00:15:23.440 notice other people even if they call you for dinner. You're not engaged with the real world.

00:15:28.720 Many people share more intimacy with a smartphone than with another human being.

00:15:32.960 Sorry, that's just not right. That's just not how we evolved.

00:15:37.140 Thinking becomes convergent and concrete rather than divergent and creative.

00:15:41.460 We lose imagination.

00:15:43.540 And our brains adapt to predictable screen algorithms rather than spontaneous real people.

00:15:50.440 But it gets worse.

00:15:52.340 In very heavy users, hey, I'm talking addiction language now,

00:15:56.280 heavy users, the equivalent of drug addicts, the brain's empathy area, the anterior cingulate gyrus,

00:16:02.420 shrinks. Now just think about that. A part of your brain shrinks in response to screen addiction. A

00:16:08.300 part of the brain that we have spent tens of thousands of years evolving to help us get along

00:16:13.380 with each other. In a single generation, it's being pruned back because it's just not being used

00:16:18.360 enough. That's devolution right in front of our MRIs. Less empathy, less ability to engage with

00:16:25.180 people screens change our brain chemistry which changes our feelings oxytocin serotonin beta

00:16:33.500 endorphin levels fall because we're spending less time together we feel bad social phobia anxiety

00:16:41.060 and depression suicide they rise because we're spending less time together we feel bad to get

00:16:48.160 over this nihilism and loneliness guess what we turn to addictions for relief so because of dopamine

00:16:54.400 you feel good for a short time, then you go back to feeling bad.

00:16:59.580 That's addiction.

00:17:00.960 Feeling a void where friendship should be.

00:17:04.920 More social media, more screens, less empathy, less people interactions,

00:17:08.700 less friends, more loneliness, more depression, more suicide.

00:17:12.640 The biggest rise in suicide is in 10 to 14-year-old females,

00:17:16.740 up 300% in five years.

00:17:21.640 300%.

00:17:23.640 Why? 1.00

00:17:24.400 because impersonal screen interactions suit female aggression. 1.00

00:17:29.480 Males give them face-to-face physical violence. 1.00

00:17:33.200 Females give them social media, screen anonymity. 1.00

00:17:36.920 This suits their relational violence. 1.00

00:17:40.080 They single somebody out, exclude them, start rumours,

00:17:43.600 destroy character, destroy reputation. 0.99

00:17:46.500 There's a long list of young females who have killed themselves.

00:17:50.740 It's a tragedy.

00:17:51.740 We're making enemies out of people who could be our friends.

00:17:54.880 That's bizarre.

00:17:56.560 It's all part of the brain damage, thanks to screen addiction.

00:18:00.020 One study shows that just having a smartphone close by

00:18:02.740 decreases your ability to think and to pay attention.

00:18:06.520 Well, what do you call that?

00:18:07.660 What do you call mental illness?

00:18:09.220 It's all a form of mild, reversible brain damage.

00:18:14.140 Okay, so this information references over 100 separate studies,

00:18:17.380 all pointing in one direction.

00:18:19.460 Smartphones, social media, they're addictive,

00:18:22.340 and they contribute to mental illness.

00:18:24.400 There's not a single study showing that the more that you're on social media, the better your mental health.

00:18:30.980 I went to a child and youth mental health conference.

00:18:34.000 It showed a sharp rise in mental illness since 2007.

00:18:39.220 Why?

00:18:40.180 Sure, divorce rates haven't helped, our risk and tolerance society doesn't help,

00:18:44.000 drugs and alcohol continue to be problems, but none of them became suddenly worse in 2007.

00:18:50.560 There are other possibilities.

00:18:52.260 Maybe somebody spilt an anti-brain chemical in the water system.

00:18:55.520 Maybe there was an alien invasion we slept through.

00:18:58.280 Or maybe it's a virus with gain of function being transmitted through screens.

00:19:02.660 Come on, look at the science.

00:19:04.840 Or is this just going to be another inconvenient truth for us to ignore?

00:19:09.240 So where's the hope?

00:19:10.940 The good news is that, as always, us nationalists, we think that we're going to be able to turn this around.

00:19:17.980 We have hope for our nation.

00:19:19.180 We can prioritize in-person gatherings of our own people. Now, of course, the problem with this is that we're constantly being shut down by the left anytime we want to gather. So this is definitely a struggle for nationalists, but it's something that, you know, we can strive to do more of.

00:19:34.500 We can rebuild third places rooted in Canadian heritage, bring back the red ensign, share more of our history, and go back to traditional family values, encourage real-world skills, encourage courtship and dating, and encourage community service.

00:19:53.020 A nationalist renewal means rejecting isolation and recommitting to the bonds that sustain a people across generations, and our survival depends on it.

00:20:03.240 thanks for watching this one guys i will see you on the next one where we're going to do

00:20:07.960 a breakdown of how the screens are destroying our ability to become fully human

postyX - July 02, 2026

Loneliness, Isolation, and the Collapse of Real Community

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