It’s possible countries with mega populations don’t have this problem. I wonder if people in India or China have any disillusion that they are one out of a billion in their country, and are nothing special. It’s possible they value whatever the hell life gives them (whatever friends they have, whatever family, whatever job, etc).

The west is taught that we are unique. Really? Let me connect everyone to the internet and show you how untrue that is. Now what do you value?

It’s the type of existential crisis of finding out you are really not to the right of the normal distribution, and in fact, dead smack in the middle (or to the left, horrifyingly).

Someone can easily stop talking to you. You didn’t sincerely believe you were special did you?

Could be wrong though.