Loading ...Look Around And What Do You See? Social Defeat
How often do you see acknowledgements that social defeat and social depression are rampant in America?
In my analysis, social defeat is a complex response to systemic economic, social and political inequalities. In other words, social defeat is the only possible outcome of structurally generated extreme asymmetries of wealth, income and power. Downward mobility excels in creating and distributing social defeat.
In my lexicon, social defeat manifests as a spectrum of anxiety, insecurity, chronic stress, powerlessness, and fear of declining social status. Countless studies have identified the destructive consequences of chronic social defeat: social avoidance, passivity, depression, hyper-aggression, increased food intake and body mass, drug addiction, and so on.
What do you see when you look around? I see all the manifestations of widespread chronic social defeat. When the system has been rigged to favor the dominant few at the expense of the many, the only possible outcome is systemic social defeat which manifests as all the ills listed above.
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“When the system has been rigged to favor the dominant few at the expense of the many, the only possible outcome is systemic social defeat which manifests as all the ills listed above.”
I’m not sure its Defeat, so much as a realization that we are nearing some kind of Revolution. Where history tells us that it doesn’t always come out better on the other side. 1776 was the exception that proves that rule. So its not Defeat so much as Resignation (to that probable different reality ahead). And that our best days are now quite probably behind us. For those of us who are older, we were already there but this is a compounding dimension.