An excellent, thought-provoking, sobering read from Ana Marie Cox: What if our entire national character is a trauma response? "Privilege may keep you from certain kinds of risks, but it won’t make you resilient. Only community can." https://newrepublic.com/article/175311/america-polarized-traumatized-trump-violence
We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized.
The pandemic. The mass shootings. Insurrection. Trump. We've been through so much. What if our entire national character is a trauma response?The New Republic
Gabrielle Klein-Mejia
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in reply to kottke.org • • •I think you would be interested in a book that came recently to mind: Anne Wilson Schaef's When Society Becomes an Adddict.
I read it shortly after it was published in 1988, and at the time it was eye-opening about the problems in the company in which I worked. But in rereading it now, it has a much broader reach.
Here are inexpensive copies:
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When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef - AbeBooks
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in reply to kottke.org • • •As a MH professional, I believe trauma has played much more of a role in many cultural norms around power (specifically) than most people realize.
Power and control issues -usually- become huge issues for survivors of trauma due to the loss of control that is a hallmark of all trauma experiences.
culturalPTSD.org explores many intersections between power and collective responses to trauma.