Ritafee
Is Being Human
This article pretty much sums up my sense of what is happening in politics these days ...
We are living under conditions of ‘cultural insanity’, a term referring to a pathological mismatch between the inculturation strategies of a culture and the intrapsychic needs of its followers. Being normal is no longer a healthy ambition.
The demoralized mind ...
ttps://newint.org/columns/essays/2016/04/01/psycho-spiritual-crisis
We are living under conditions of ‘cultural insanity’, a term referring to a pathological mismatch between the inculturation strategies of a culture and the intrapsychic needs of its followers. Being normal is no longer a healthy ambition.
The demoralized mind ...
- demoralization tends to be mislabelled and treated as if it were depression.
- A major reason for the poor 28-per-cent success rate of anti-depressant drugs is that a high percentage of ‘depression’ cases are actually demoralization, a condition unresponsive to drugs.
- In the past, our understanding of demoralization was limited to specific extreme situations, such as debilitating physical injury, terminal illness, prisoner-of-war camps, or anti-morale military tactics.
- But there is also a cultural variety that can express itself more subtly and develop behind the scenes of normal everyday life under pathological cultural conditions such as we have today.
- This culturally generated demoralization is nearly impossible to avoid for the modern ‘consumer’.
- Human culture has mutated into a sociopathic marketing machine dominated by economic priorities and psychological manipulation.
- Never before has a cultural system inculcated its followers to suppress so much of their humanity.
- Leading this hostile takeover of the collective psyche are increasingly sophisticated propaganda and misinformation industries that traffic the illusion of consumer happiness by wildly amplifying our expectations of the material world.
- The more lost, disoriented and spiritually defeated people become, the more susceptible they become to persuasion, and the more they end up buying into the oversold expectations of consumption.
- As the products of invisible parents, commercialized education, cradle-to-grave marketing and a profoundly boring and insane cultural programme, they must also assimilate into consumer culture while knowing from the outset that its workings are destroying the planet and jeopardizing their future.
- The fact that it has not highlights the degree of demoralization that infects the consumer age.
ttps://newint.org/columns/essays/2016/04/01/psycho-spiritual-crisis
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...because many of the women seeking abortions desperately are going to be many of the most vulnerable and least likely to be able to pay for them.Those without private health insurance or substantial savings. What if her boyfriend or husband raped her? It has to go to court and that could take how long? Maybe she’s scared of going to court about it. Maybe she can’t afford it because she needs to work and her husband is unemployed and they are a week away from being evicted, and, etc...What if she’s a teen who consented with a boy her same age, but the boy moved away after the summer... she’s poor, and scared and has no family support or they will disown her and that will be traumatic? There are countless possible scenarios and so many reasons why Ron Paul was still wrong. Yes, I think we should aim to lessen anyones’ need for abortion so it happens less but he just sounds like an out of touch patriarchal old man who has no business making a judgment about abortion because, with him, it ultimately comes down to who can afford it. What an a**hole.