| Oh sure! Project your fears onto other people, and put them into psuedo-categories. Much easier to do this than to humanize them. Bravo for your technical analysis! Oh boy! This sarcasm is what living in Britain for 10 years has helped me master. I think deep down my sarcasm actually represents pain. - “We Americans stubbornly resist the possibility that what we do is profoundly shaped by policies, norms, systems, and other structural realities. We prefer to believe that people who commit crimes are morally deficient, that the have-nots in our midst are lazy (or at least insufficiently resourceful), that overweight people simply lack the willpower to stop eating, and so on. If only those folks would just exercise a little personal responsibility, a bit more self-control!” — Alfie Kahn - Seriously, what needs of yours are met by psuedo-diagnosing some of American society's most vulnerable? And more importantly, what needs of yours are unmet? What emotions do you feel, and what do you feel in your body? I think American society has evolved into a culture that glorifies violence, turns young girls into sex objects, sends young men to their deaths to ‘defend America’, and indoctrinates it's citizens with bizarre nationalistic views and a sense superiority that to me is completely removed from a compassionate view of life. For some reason, instead of having an empathic view on those people, your ego has decided that it is actually better than these people. This to me looks like a case of good old grandiosity! This seems oh so common in the great U. S. of A.. Exceptionalism seems to be embedded into the culture overall. I invite all of us to take a gentle look in the mirror, and I believe the following video reflects our collective unconscious and our society’s ‘shadow’. It has helped me reflect, maybe it will for you too. “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” -C.G. Jung (In-Shadow by Lubomir Arsov)[https://vimeo.com/242569435] - Update - comment on prison: "I don’t have a solution to ruiners that isn’t prison" Have you watched the recent documentary 'The Work'? I think putting people in jail is possibly the worst crime of all. Let's get them in therapy instead. We can help to heal them by listening to their stories.
The trailer for 'The Work' can be watched here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8OVXG2GhpQ |