THE FAWNING EPIDEMIC: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PLAGUE IS TURNING MILLIONS INTO EMPTY, APPROVAL-SEEKING ZOMBIES. Forget fight or flight—experts now reveal a DEEPLY DISTURBING third trauma response that’s quietly CRUSHING the modern psyche. According to shocking new books, “fawning” is a sinister adaptation where survivors of past wounds become PERPETUAL PEOPLE-PLEASERS, erasing their own identities to court validation from a cruel world. This isn’t just anxiety—it’s a TOTAL SURRENDER of the self. The authors expose a horrifying truth: fawners wear masks of perfectionism, workaholism, and false generosity, all while screaming inside, “AM I EVEN REAL?” They chase prestigious careers they hate and say YES to impossible favors, their every act a desperate cry for love from a society that views kindness as weakness.
But the cure proposed is EVEN MORE CONTROVERSIAL. The so-called “unfawning” movement demands a ruthless, hypervigilant suspicion of your own MOTIVATIONS. Are you donating to charity out of genuine care, or just purging trauma-induced shame? The authors push readers to STOP volunteering, STOP helping, and START putting themselves FIRST—a direct assault on the very bedrock of human decency. This radical ideology is now bleeding into our politics and culture, empowering a dangerous new wave of SELFISHNESS championed by billionaires and right-wing figures who label empathy a “SIN.” The implication is chilling: our compulsion to be “good” is a sickness, and the only path to health is to become HARD, SUSPICIOUS, and utterly SELF-CENTERED. Are we healing trauma, or engineering a society of heartless individualists who view connection as a trap? The line between recovery and societal collapse has never been thinner.
This isn’t self-help—it’s a CULTURAL SUICIDE PACT, normalizing narcissism as therapy and painting basic human compassion as a pathological flaw. As we are taught to inspect and discard the “helpers” Mr. Rogers told us to look for, we must ask ourselves a terrifying question: in the desperate scramble to be free, are we dismantling the very fabric that holds humanity together?



