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    Default Demoralization

    I see this here:

    https://newint.org/columns/essays/20...iritual-crisis

    Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well?


    Contributing to the confusion is the equally insidious epidemic of demoralization that also afflicts modern culture. Since it shares some symptoms with depression, demoralization tends to be mislabelled and treated as if it were depression. A major reason for the poor 28-per-cent success rate of anti-depressant drugs is that a high percentage of ‘depression’ cases are actually demoralization, a condition unresponsive to drugs.


    In the past, our understanding of demoralization was limited to specific extreme situations, such as debilitating physical injury, terminal illness, prisoner-of-war camps, or anti-morale military tactics. But there is also a cultural variety that can express itself more subtly and develop behind the scenes of normal everyday life under pathological cultural conditions such as we have today. This culturally generated demoralization is nearly impossible to avoid for the modern ‘consumer’.

    Rather than a depressive disorder, demoralization is a type of existential disorder associated with the breakdown of a person’s ‘cognitive map’. It is an overarching psycho-spiritual crisis in which victims feel generally disoriented and unable to locate meaning, purpose or sources of need fulfilment.


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    They'll look you in the eyes and stone you,
    Then turn and disown you.

    They'll walk all over your name
    Till they find someone else to blame.

    Secrets hide their lies
    Inside hidden alibis.

    I would rather take your punch
    Than not give you a shot.
    I'd rather find out who you are
    Than who you're not.
    Should've known better than to mistake business for love.
    Should've known better than to mistake a fist for love.

    Don't believe the headlines,
    Check for yourself sometimes.

    The lies you live become you,
    The love you lose, it numbs you.

    You say that you've arrived,
    That's just a high class bribe.

    Don't let it take the fight outta you.
    Last edited by ramus; 20th January 2021 at 15:39.

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