The nature of postmodernism is to decohere big things into fragmented things, or at least destabilize them enough to provide room for skeptical reconsideration.
The outcome is atomized selves that have difficulty finding coherence. To stabilize this fragile self, people reach out to others to care about them, finding support through a validating network.
Unfortunately, the ‘concern of others’ is a resource drawn from equally fragmented fellows. As you need care, they need care, and attention is an economic resource pulling concern to novel avenues, making your care network precarious.
To re-engage your base your pleas must become more shrill or desperate, more excessive, prompting self-victimization as a means to gather attention, which feels like care.
This descent inverts into ascent: self-scapegoating for living martyr status.
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