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SocioAnalytic Dialogue, a psychosocial approach to public policy and societal level behaviors
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The time to prepare for the Brave New World dystopia that may be upon us is, therefore, right now. One can only hope that lights will shine somewhere.
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But even “never again is now”failed to halt the descent to into the abysm. At some point the psychosocial defenses will fail to do what they supposed to accomplish.
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The pandemic was the very first time extinction anxieties, by definition unbearable, came dangerously close to the surface. Massive denial, as a collective survival defense, had to be mobilized.
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These mass-disability events set the stage psychosocially for the kind of depravity, as seen in the likes of Elon Musk, that has set the stage for the deliberate shock tactics meant to quell any remaining capacity to dissent.
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The denial -as a deliberate refusal to know- that ensued took humanity on the long road from Wuhan, where the virus emerged, to Gaza.
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The stage for this was set at the very onset of the pandemic when the UN reversed itself after having acknowledged the airborne nature of the new virus and The NYTimes basically buried an early 2020 article that made a clear analogy between HIV & SARS-Cov2 in terms of damage to the immune system.
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Yes please. Applying (after adapting it) psychoanalysis to countries and their public policies. Working on societal level unconscious defenses and their influences on policies, large group behaviors.
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Oz, that is a GOOD response 👍👍👍
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Incidentally, except for a few people then, the French Revolution was in many ways one of those moments, except for the rare royal affiliated (the court in Versailles) that escaped or were killed unless they embraced what were seen as needed changes then.
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Wondering if we might witness, what would be a wished for surge on my part, a "we are all in this together" moment that could eventually smooth corners as there is increasingly convergence of defenses.
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A long shot but my entry point might be that societies are "beyond splitting" as latter, as a defense, may no longer make sense when anxieties are of the extinction level kind.
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There must be an urgent call/mobilization on psychosocial thinking about policies (my focus always) as societies are becoming completely overwhelmed.
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The collective "we' is where it must be understood and addressed. (Incidentally, internal Israeli psychosocial dynamics show the importance of the collective "we" as they are essentially all together in the current dystopia).
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The key question remains wjht did we collectively get to that states of affairs. Trying to understand and address this fundamental question. cannot be done with simplistic (psychosocially that is) 'us' versus "them" splitting.
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"wished for", albeit indirectly, as that's the collective unconscious dimension. Therefore, diagnosing our shared ills, as a prelude to addressing them (e.g., working through) requires BOTH thinking at the conscious and unconscious level and the latter is the most important.
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While mental representations (both actual and idealized, or what we see and what we wish for) are indeed endogenous (for ex., Chomsky's Manufactured Consent) so are power structures. They are NOT just imposed (that's the conscious dimension only, for ex., class structure) but ALSO
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These vested interests destroy the organization.
The big difference now is that rather than single organizations becoming perverse, entire nations are.
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(i) decisions are driven by narcissistic gratification (grandiosity); and
(ii) entire organizations are hijacked by individuals colluding (often unconsciously) with one another to capture the organization, which they use to satisfy their narcisistic greed.
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Look when there is psychosocial convergence (same anxieties, same psychosocial structure, same defense), there is psychosocial convergence (as underpinning psychosocial dynamics have more, rather than less, in common) and the rest follows. Israel, regardless of mass demonstrations, has shown this.
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Sometimes I even wonder if P2/P3 is enough in these situations, your take (I guess so 🤔), carrying an Aranet to check? Stay safe.
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Drew Webster, another word I have added (not knowing if it’s Drew’ speak or proper English). My life has been so enshittified lately that I am drowning… thanks to you for enabling to express my predicament (truth is am oblivious and dumb enough to still believe, until Jan 20, that my life is heaven
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I don’t read it metaphorically. The graveyard image maybe but the threats, which I interpret as the purpose of the tweet not at all. The so-called Musk/Thiel ticket, be it with Trump or just with Vance is quite frightening given the significant extinction challenges faced by humanity.
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Would like to be in the group. While not writing medically on the pandemic, wrote one of the few -or only- psychosocial (psychoanalytical my based at societal level) analysis of the pandemic; the original psychosocial deed that changed aggregate behaviors since then.
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The same one that you had found earlier or (what I understood), another one? In Josselin am sure. Great choice of region. Congrats.
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You described it perfectly. An outsider -& lonelier/abandoned even more- in a group that has already been shunned. But in the end, that experience of exclusion is more universal than you might feel in your very tough predicament as many of us are “somewhat” there too (enough to identify with you).
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of those (plural in her case) infections.
Of course, I remember very fondly all your interactions with your mother -and made a point to follow those closely- as they truly reflected what love and unconditional presence means. Stay strong.
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I did not know (or forgot/overlooked) that part which would have happened before we “met” on X. My mother was also carelessly infected, albeit not in a clinical setting,and with what is known about Covid feel that it is likely that her dementia worsened considerably as a result
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But, one also needs to think about how the family of the victim, the father among others, must feel in terms of having been abandoned any the state.
The age of indifference is also the age of depravity.
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(think about the organized excursions enabling them to watch the carnage from afar) and openly brag about it on TikTok or though IDF soldiers' sick display of wearing Palestinian women's lingerie.
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In fact, some will relish in seeing him at the Army Navy game in a somewhat similar way, by association, to that of Israelis taking intense pleasure at seeing Gazans being killed
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But in the age of the indifference characterized by the collapse of in the capacity for identification with one another, such considerations no longer matter.
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Inviting the acquitted New York subway second degree murdered is an example of the people in charge feeling brazen, a la Netanyahu or similar, of doing something that before would have been met with strong hesitations due to fears of hurting a key constituency.
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What Peter Thiel refers to as the new world order, which he sees as a break from the past, has by definition to be from a psychosocial perspective in the sense of the mental representations, shared anxieties, and collective defenses changing drastically from the previous to the new world order.