Have people become chronically competitive and is this leading to social isolation

This sounds like a bit of a jumble of unconnected ideas!

Im really unsure what all the different things you’re complaining about have to do with each other - particularly the Ukrainian men! Hardly comparable to competitive friendship groups, self appointed Covid police and the concept of “woke” - none of which are really similar to one another, but connecting them to the situation of people facing the reality of fighting in a war is somewhat mind boggling.

Because we were previously raised to keep your opinions to yourself and certainly your vote in an election was a private matter. I remember asking my mother who she voted for when on my first year voting in a GE. She told me no, that’s private. I didn’t understand at the time but I do now. At least the UK isn’t as bad as the US in this respect, where everyone seems to declare who they intend to vote for. Nailing your colours, declaring your tribe, creating the divide.

When you learn people’s opinions on certain subjects, it changes your perspective of them and everyone these days feels entitled to share their opinion whether asked or not.
Maybe we should learn from those older generations.

I think the problem is much more about capitalism - it means people working long hours, people not having as much space at home to have guests over or the energy to receive them and the alternative to that involving spending lots of money to be somewhere else.

I very much fear for the generation of teens at the moment, so many of them date socialize hardly at all outside of their houses.
It's so easy to game all day and not go out.
I limit screen time a lot here even with the older teens and as a result they instigate a lot of social activity but some of their former friends are so glued to their screens they only go out once or twice a week outside of organised activities.
We also talk a lot about the decisive nature of social media and extreme politics. And how the website site Twitter and Reddit rely on divisiveness to spur use.
Sadly it's very apparent that many people are easily led as the riots and support for people like Donald trump and falling for the rhetoric of Farage has shown.

I know what you mean but puzzled by the word “competitive”.

that said, one big problem at the moment is that language is evolving to a point where everyone has different interpretations of words.

Are you writing an article?

What has any of that got to do with being ‘chronically competitive’?