Seeing Jews and Israel as being at the centre of things causes us to misunderstand reality

The phrase ‘main character syndrome’ seems to have been coined in 2013 in relation to Role Playing Games (RPGs), to describe a situation when a player views their character as the centre of the game’s narrative and plays accordingly. From around 2021 it gained its current meaning on social media to refer to real-life; individuals who see themselves as the main character and everyone else as the supporting cast. It’s commonplace; my daughter certainly suffers from it, but she is primary-school age so it’s understandable, even charming. On social media it’s even more widespread; you literally create a feed that centres you and your interests, or at least you did before Musk and Zuckerberg decided to fix the algorithms to show you the things they want you to see.