{"id":583505,"date":"2023-06-08T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T01:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=583505"},"modified":"2023-06-08T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T01:57:40","slug":"look-around-and-what-do-you-see-social-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=583505","title":{"rendered":"Look Around And What Do You See? Social Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>How often do you see acknowledgements that\u00a0social defeat\u00a0and\u00a0social depression\u00a0are rampant in America?<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><strong>In my analysis,\u00a0<em>social defeat<\/em>\u00a0is a complex response to systemic economic, social and political inequalities.<\/strong>\u00a0In other words,\u00a0<em>social defeat<\/em>\u00a0is the\u00a0<em>only possible outcome<\/em>\u00a0of structurally generated extreme asymmetries of wealth, income and power. Downward mobility excels in creating and distributing social defeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In my lexicon, social defeat manifests as a spectrum of anxiety, insecurity, chronic stress, powerlessness, and fear of declining social status.<\/strong>\u00a0Countless 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you see when you look around? I see all the manifestations of widespread\u00a0<em>chronic social defeat.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0When the system has been rigged to favor the dominant few at the expense of the many, the\u00a0<em>only possible outcome<\/em>\u00a0is systemic\u00a0<em>social defeat<\/em>\u00a0which manifests as all the ills listed above.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/look-around-and-what-do-you-see-social.html\">http:\/\/charleshughsmith.blogspot.com\/2023\/06\/look-around-and-what-do-you-see-social.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you see acknowledgements that\u00a0social defeat\u00a0and\u00a0social depression\u00a0are rampant in America? In my analysis,\u00a0social defeat\u00a0is a complex response to systemic economic, social and political inequalities.\u00a0In other words,\u00a0social defeat\u00a0is the\u00a0only possible outcome\u00a0of structurally generated extreme asymmetries of wealth, income and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=583505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583506,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583505\/revisions\/583506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}