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This reads like poetry.
Not mine, fwiw. It's circulated as "The Narcissist's Prayer" online.
It's a lot less poetic when you had to live through it.
At what point do we realize their strategy is to contend good rhetoric and reason, and it is quite effective, so reasonably we ought consider less reasonable approaches. Not necessarily unreasonable, but surely areasonable (if you’ll give me that). Not to tether my thread to the Marxist ideology but I believe they had a term for something like this, the “Great Refusal.” Modern equivalent, “fuck off, we’ll move on without you.” Not to the politics, but to their sources of power… in essence, maybe, when do we build infrastructure and demand public ownership of it? When do we organize unions and general strikes without playing by the elitist establishment's rules for doing so? When do we prioritize seeking out manners to fill the majority of our free time by means opposed to consumerism altogether? When do we as communities secure the functional ability to resolve our own needs for retirement and break the established dependence on financial markets or labor for securities in our vulnerable years? Surely there’s quite a few ways we can be doing a lot more as a society.