These comments from US posters say it all.

[billy the kid]

"My own form of learned helplessness has emerged, a bit different from the author's description, but probably relatable to many readers here.

My learned helplessness has caused me to withdraw personally from most of the people in my life. It also centers around the fact that so many have been swept up in this mania that I am extremely disillusioned about life in general, and what will come of our future existence in this increasingly dystopian world. The elites have unlocked the morse code and now will use a series of false flags and engineered crises to reduce our lives to a meager, joyless experience.

How? Everywhere you go, you will have to wonder what the rule book says, or whether you are up to date in your shots, whether you can do anything at all like before and without some sort of governmental or authoritative interference, whether you can walk in a place without being tapped on the shoulder for this reason or that, whether you left home with all your required "equipment," whether others are safe to be around (GMO/vaccinated crowd), whether others view you the same way. The human interaction is completely upended and it will likely worsen.

I life in a 400-unit condo complex and get into many poolside conversations about the 'rona. I am a total non-believer and a cult rejector, making me in the stark minority. My complex is a microcosm of the world, and the same happens outside of there. I've been in more heated arguments than I can count and virtually no one thinks as I do.

Never before have I had difficulty getting along with people on the opposite side of the political spectrum, but this is different. One such argument with any of them, and there is a loss of comfort and I no longer want to be around them. I even actively avoid them now. Call it learned awkwardness. Most others probably feel the same way, but after having to go along with this **** for far too long (one day was too long for me), I just give NO ground when discussing this and if they don't like it, I just don't care. If that means damaged relations, so be it. I no longer care.

Aside from this matter, I have just given up on so many in the human race. I'm seeing horrible character in people in so many ways I can't count them all. Mostly I see weakness around me and I feel enveloped in it. When you're mentally strong and independent, seeing weakness around you aggravates the livin' **** out of you.

Also, I just don't feel any motivation when looking toward the future. I mostly say, why bother? Whether it's going out socially, improving my home, working on my finances ....or whatever. If life is going to remain this way, the motivation in so many respects has been just sucked right out of me.

Anyone else see it this way?"
AND then theres this one from another US poster....

"Everything for several generations has been about demoralisation, destroying the family, religion, middle class, and generally reducing people to debt serfs, slaves, and eventually guinea pigs and livestock animals. If you assume the people who think they own you don't even identify as human and are unimaginably cruel, everything makes sense."

[Bobby]