It's not like the US had a functioning public health system prior to 2025, but the fact that RFK has managed to make things significantly worse, to the point where preventable diseases are tearing through the population and we have no accessible data on anything is an absolute disaster.
Me for sure
I do. BNY15 on BW. Friend request made.
@jamesthrot.bsky.social see message left on X post. Would like to reach out and connect: “James, working on very similar issues (from a psychoanalytic angle applied to societies) at public policy level and worldwide. Also working on a new book tackling somewhat similar urgent issues. Bruno
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!!
An over 4%decline in a week is not a good signal. Uncertainty and volatility (as in Trump going back and forth on policies) is the wise kind of management. Clear goals, well thought out public policies and consistency are crucial.
This is not a surprise. We know what causes CO₂ to increase in the atmosphere and we know how to stop climate change. We just don’t want to.
‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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.
ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S "debasement of morals and norms”.
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.
REVOLUTION NOW: YES BUT ALL TOGETHER
SOCIETIES COULD BECOME "BEYOND SPLITTING'
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).
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.
"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.
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
TRYING TO FIND AND ISOLATE CULPRITS FOR TODAY'S CRASHING WORLD IS BOUND TO FAIL
Thanks for shredding what needs to be shred. The wording is indeed a raw and indecent exposure to
shockingly regressed psychosocial dynamics that have already inflicted catastrophic damage upon humanity. The failure to distinguish between ex-post and ex-ante acceptance of a tragedy is absurd.
