There are a few logically inconsistent conclusions here, like assertiveness being interpreted as selfishness, for example, a person genuinely concerned for the public good can be very assertive, a person in a critical life threatening situation like a doctor has to be very assertive to cut through the panic and disorder in order to save lives.
Anyhow the main criticism I'd make is that the analysis fails to recognise that what we are seeing appears to be a reaction to changes in the physical environment.
From my perspective, analysing what I've seen coming a long time, is a global physical energy problem. This isn't just about fossil fuels, it includes all energy in all money, profit, and food, and we can see, or should be able to see, availability of it is becoming scarcer to the average person. The energy value is steadily dropping out of money, food prices are going up faster than anything, and all of it, all business, is struggling to keep making profits demanded by investors. Add to this the rising frequency of planetary disaster due to ever rising temperature and we literally have a very explosive mix, all ready to ignite.
Of course folk sense this spiritually, and there seems a natural tendency for us to blame others for it, yet we all participate in it, beacause actually we have no choice, it's a system of energy slavery, we all have to practice the ridiculous energy lie of profit, to even get the energy we each need to metabolise for ourselves, the only way to get this is by making energy profit.
And look, when we trace it, profit is monetised destruction, literally, increase of entropy which is increase of temperature, it's a physical law we can't get around, and now the planet is beginning to burn around us, spiritually we feel the walls closing in, and we can't understand the part we each played in it, preferring instead to virtue signal, always blaming others.
Further, now we are starting to understand what emergent properties mean, from things like Ai/ LLMs, we should realise we are part of one, and this explains our behaviour all driven for profit, we can see emergent properties exist with any large collection of agents, a classic case is ants. A single ant has zero intelligence by itself, it understands nothing of the force driving it but it operates in a very effective system of energy management (food being the energy in their case), setting up supply lines etc to get the food back to the main horde, but look what haopens when the food runs out, as it always has to, the ants I the outlying places literally genocide and even consume one another, to reduce the load on energy still remaining for the inner horde to consume. Does this not look familiar?
Our energy supply, as normally provided / obtained by profit is running out, profitability is becoming more and more difficult, as availabilty of energy runs low, only those with significant capital look to have any cushion, but this time the whole planet is running low on energy available to extract, it can look like the end of the world is looming.
But there is another energy we can switch to, technically, the facilities we have to receive energy direct from sun are appearing, they have not far to go, to be capable of providing all the energy we need including conversion directly to both hydrogen fuel and food (See "Solein").
Monetising it, is the challenge, and the catalyst to unlock it to all people.
Monetising it requires money to be issued for free to all people, because there is no work to do, no destruction to do per Joule or KWhr of energy received.
The sun asks nothing for the KWhrs delivered, it costs it nothing to deliver them, and they never run out, unlike any extracted energy, they are available forever.
We could switch to it tomorrow, if the banks and money issuers would start issuing funds representing it, honestly indicating the enetgy received on the tokens of money issued.
Until then, we are destined to genocide and consume one another whilst being ungulfed by a burning planet.
This is the harsh reality, and we all play a part in it, until we stop playing that part.
Maybe we are seeing this in some ways.
I like to hope so.
Certainly we seem to be sensing it.