I saw something super racist against white people in a child’s game the other day. 

This factors into my larger question of how did we get to this point. 

I think it has something to do with the invasion of Middle East when Americans realized they had lost the moral high ground. 

The revelation of what was happening in Afghanistan broke the assumption that more democracy is better and led to the breaking of a worldview. 

This became something of an original sin which morphed into white guilt. 

The loss of a worldview led to anxiety which drove everyone to find something fixed to stand upon which happened to be identity. 

This combined with white guilt lead to things like racism against white people in children’s games.

In other cultures, there is a ritual for a boy to become a man, but I've been curious as to why there isn't one in the West.

I realized that the manual for becoming a man and the path out of the self harm we are doing is in the Bible. 

In this cast, I mentioned that a worldview fractured, and when this happens your psyche is split into two because the thing holding you together is gone. When this happens, you lose your grounding which makes you uncertain. At some point, the idea that it's easier to forgo life altogether appears, and one part of your psyche turns on you.

The internal struggle you experience during this is just manifest in the real world because in some people, one psyche is winning. That said, the way out of this isn't to defeat the so called devil, but rather to choose love because the only way out is to replace a false idol with a true idol. That's why the Bible says Jesus saved you because we would be caught in this loop otherwise.

We’re on a journey to the truth, which is that Jesus Christ is God.