Wow, this thread managed to give me some new epiphanies.

Had a bunch of thoughts regarding OP's post and these replies. I'll try to be more coherent after listing the sporadic ideas that came to mind:

• Perhaps the decline happens, because lack of necessity means a lack of pressures that force the creation/cultivation of leaders, and thus, a lack of useful masculine energy.
• But what would prevent people from successfully executing feminine-psychopathic-strategy (as per OP's post) in the workplace (CF. https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/big-reputation-the-mark-of-the-beast-macho-subordinacy-and-the-masculine-fourth-turning/)
• Perhaps a solution to lies, and psychopathic-reputation-destruction strategy is credibility.
• If you want to be heard, you need credibility. it can't be outsourced to institutions, etc.
• We don't have credibility in our organizational systems because we outsource some of these things to the systems. So we're more prone to believe claims from randoms because we have no other way to evaluate these claims since credibility is out the window.
• It needs to be non-transactional organizational interactions.
  • As a leader in a group, do you believe the random, reputation-destroyer or the valued and trusted member of your crew?
  • Repeated randoms making the same reputation-destroying claim can be a signal to seriously look into it.
  • The point is, there needs to be concrete thresholds, not aimless, confused wanderings around how to handle situations.
• Transactional strategy, while efficient, leads to lack of aims perhaps. lack of communication.
• As a result, innocent people, in or out of the organization, become victims of it.

So now, the best articulation I can manage of what might be the current state of organizational dynamics in society.

We haven't finished learning yet, as a species.

We're literally at a point in time in our species where we navigate transactional vs. relational dynamics at a scale of 7-billion+.

Up til now, we've figured out "the individual" at a smaller population scale. We figured out the hero myth, that the individual must pursue their own path, the individual is the source of truth, and we've managed to encode these lessons in many of our stories. If you try to build systems/societies at an organizational level, it decays every. single. time. for the same reason most people don't care about the core content of school and homework beyond the grade they get (the average person doesn't really care about the lessons of history, math, etc.). So truth/content/value gets outsourced to the organization, and ultimately becomes a clusterfuck since no one individual is invested in it. And the people involved start playing games because there's no value in going with the organization's line of thought. In fact, everyone sees you as a fool if you align yourself with the organization, because it's so obvious you're being used.

So we managed to build a society based on the individual, and managed to scale it up to 7-billion+. But this is our bottleneck now- scale. The transactional vs. the relational. How can 7-billion+ people interact such that the interactions are relational? AKA in such a way that people can be genuinely invested and care for each other, in a way that makes society stable and healthy over the long-term, over future generations? So far, the answer seems to be we can't. So we end up being transactional in most of our relationships- corporate, dating, school, everything. It's great for efficiency, but I suspect it's horrible for psychological health, and contributes to a potential societal decline in the future. Transactional strategies appear to imply non-viability of long-term interactions/relationships/societies, which means the foundation is short-term strategy, which lends itself more to the psychopaths and sociopaths. Which is fine, but I mean, the reason we evolved linear and parallel processing modes in the brain was for long-term strategy with short-term strategy in pockets of great stress.

So the decline might be organizational decay that progressively gets worse until the societies can no longer sustain themselves. No one is genuinely and competently invested and so it just decays, accumulating loss of value as the non-invested take what they can. The naive just move around it til someone feels like taking a shot at them, and then they find themselves as victims without having a clue as to what even happened in the first place.

So with these organizational dynamics at present, it seems we must now take everything we've learned thus far, historically, and move forward so that we can be a long-term, viable species beyond 7-billion+, for the centuries to come. As far as we know, we haven't hit 7-billion+ before, so the challenges we face are unique in that we have to figure it out. This is the bleeding edge of societal structure, and we have to come up with viable solutions that can last hundreds or thousands of years after we die. Not the mediocre patchwork the short-term thinkers want to implement, that'll result in further decline.

Only by figuring that out and creating a rock steady foundation, will we have a shot at building an organization/society that reaches far beyond our current reaches of time and space.

If we can't even build that foundation, if we submit to the decline, we have no hope of building a society that moves beyond.

It will collapse under it's own weight.

We need to become a leaner, perhaps more relational society, and build structures around that. Take on the efficiencies of the transactional and the depths of the relational.

Integrate the monstrous with the ideal at a wider level.

We need as many individuals as possible to integrate their shadows and aim for their own highest ideals.

Otherwise, we'll go extinct.

This is our psychological great filter.

If we can't do that, we won't ever successfully move beyond this particular rock in space.

Respect for you from a US male nurse. Same type of stuff happening here. I quit my job about a month ago and I know I will never go back into health care as a floor nurse again. 50 bosses above me, none of them can even do my job but want to tell me why I'm not doing it good enough. The reason is really simple, I have 100 hours of work to do and 40 hours to do it. I hope things get better for you.

Gotta give it to tje French, when things gi to shit, they strike the fuck out until demands are met.

If they really need male nurses as you say, then you're a valuable asset. I would stop working until my overtime is paid