America’s Real Drug Problem

Comedian and social commentator Jimmy Carr observed that Americans’ biggest addiction is attention. - Peter Venetoklis

He offered three forms:

• Fame is mostly benign...
• Infamy is a problem. It inspires the malevolent and the mentally ill...
• Victimhood - However, since being an actual victim requires things like enduring harm, injustice (which includes bigotry), privation, or the like, we get three forms of “victim-adjacent” behaviors that require none of the above.

The fake-victims, such as those who complain about subconscious micro-aggressions. The suffering they endure is all in their heads.
The white knights. Who don’t have to actually be white, but often are. Their greatest concentration seems to be the AWFULs (Affluent White Female Urban Leftists), but you can find white knights in enough varieties to fill a Benetton ad.
The grifters, who are overtly dishonest and scheming rather than engaging in self-delusion. For them, victimhood is a tool to be used for self-enrichment, and the rest is just window dressing...