People don’t break under pressure. They break when the performance ends.
Normal wasn’t normal. It was a rehearsed lie exposed by silence.
People were told that what we were living was the new normal.
A narrative created over the last ten to fifteen years — a performance ecosystem sold as evolution, progress, adaptation. But like all things in the performance world, it was never tested.
The “new normal” had no stress test.
Everyone lived it. Everyone repeated it. Everyone believed it — consciously or unconsciously — because “everyone else” performed the same script.
The stress test arrived with the pandemic.
Lockdown wasn’t a crisis. It was a revelation.
It exposed who people actually are. How they actually feel. What their internal architecture is built from — or not built from.
And the illusion collapsed instantly.
Post-lockdown: Anxiety skyrocketed. Depression exploded. Behavioral problems multiplied globally.
Therapists, psychologists, life coaches — all overwhelmed, all booked for weeks and months. The system that sold “new normal” stability collapsed under the first real pressure.
People were not capable of autonomy.
People were not capable of living disconnected.
People were not capable of sustaining a single-life structure without constant external scaffolding.
This wasn’t revealed by the lockdown.
The lockdown merely removed the noise that kept the performance alive.
We construct chaos — and we call it lifestyle.
We construct instability — and call it freedom.
We create emotional dependence — and call it independence.
The result is inevitable:
You cannot defeat logic. You can only betray it.
And the more you betray logic, the harsher the awakening becomes.
Betraying logic always produces side effects.
Anxiety is not randomness.
Depression is not mystery.
Collapse is not a surprise.
They are the side effects of living against structure.
The only question left is:
Are you still living in the betrayal of logic —
or already suffering from its side effects?