Running Thoughts on Trauma
The way to get peoples to affirm an ideological or mythical reason for denying care to themselves and others is to (i) traumatize peoples in some way shape or form, (ii) allow their traumas to fester unresolved for an extended duration, and then (iii) play upon their traumas.
The Great Derangement
We must all be traumatized if we are able to rationalize a way of life that allows us to disregard the fact that wildlife populations on Earth have plummeted by more than two-thirds in the past half-century and to disregard the fact that half of the languages on Earth are likely to disappear over the course of the next century.