Here's an interesting video: "Why The UAE Walked Away From OPEC"
This is a pretty big geopolitical-energy signal, not just an oil-market story.
https://t.co/WtUdOGZV2f
The UAE is not “leaving oil” in a green moral sense.
It is trying to extract more from oil while repositioning itself for the post-oil stack: finance, ports, sovereign wealth, AI infrastructure, energy logistics, data centres, security partnerships.
Faith comes in as a way to make the self legible again.
Not just ‘I believe in God’, but ‘I now have a code, a lineage, a ritual calendar, a body discipline, a gender role, a politics, and a community that can recognise me.’
Sociologically, this feels like a post-platform masculinity formation.
These men have been raised inside algorithmic fragmentation, sexual marketplace discourse, economic precarity, political meme culture, loneliness, and self-optimisation.