Me for sure

I do. BNY15 on BW. Friend request made.

Drew (long time no interact). I absolutely love that one. Mom loves Drew’s writing. Congrats. Am myself embarking on a new (4th) book; a more personal story as a background to make a call for “repairing”, psychosocially I mean, societies. Wondering how it feels from your vantage point. Unsettling!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

The denial -as a deliberate refusal to know- that ensued took humanity on the long road from Wuhan, where the virus emerged, to Gaza.

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.

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.

Oz, that is a GOOD response 👍👍👍

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.

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.

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.

There must be an urgent call/mobilization on psychosocial thinking about policies (my focus always) as societies are becoming completely overwhelmed.

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).