How frequently do you see acknowledgements that social defeat and social anxiety are rampant in America?
If you do a search for social defeat, you find numerous links to research studies of rodents. Here, we show that social defeat tension (R-SDS) hinders goal-directed motivation in male mice. “Social defeat is started when a male rodent is presented into the house cage of an older, aggressive, dominant male.” “The social defeat tension design.” And so on.
When used to people, the meanings are generalized in mental terms: “The meaning of Social Defeat is the loss of power, status, or self-esteem as a result of verbal or physical abuse by others.” “Social defeat (SD) is specified as a feeling of having actually lost the battle causing a loss of important status or of essential individual goals.” And so on.
In my analysis, social defeat is an intricate action to systemic financial, social and political inequalities. In other words, social defeat is the only possible outcome of structurally produced severe asymmetries of wealth, earnings and power. Downward mobility excels in developing and dispersing social defeat.
Social defeat develops in rigorous social hierarchies in which the couple of control the lots of. Overcrowding intensifies the lots of ills of social defeat within these social hierarchies based on dominance.
In my lexicon, social defeat manifests as a spectrum of anxiety, insecurity, persistent tension, powerlessness, and fear of declining social status. Many studies have identified the destructive effects of chronic social defeat: social avoidance, passivity, anxiety, hyper-aggression, increased food intake and body mass, drug addiction, and so on.
What do you see when you take a look around? I see all the symptoms of prevalent persistent social defeat. When the system has actually been rigged to favor the dominant couple of at the cost of the many, the only possible result is systemic social defeat which manifests as all the ills listed above.
Down mobility and social defeat cause social anxiety. Here are the conditions that identify social depression:
1. Unrealistically lofty expectations of endlessly rising success have been instilled in generations of citizens as a bequest.
2. Part-time and jobless individuals are marginalized, not simply economically but socially.
3. Broadening income/wealth disparity as those in the top 10% retreat from the diminishing middle class.
4. A systemic decrease in social/economic mobility as it ends up being increasingly hard to get middle class security or keep it.
5. A broadening detach between higher education and employment: a college/university degree no longer ensures a stable, good-paying job. (This is what historian Peter Turchin calls overproduction of elites.)
6. A failure in the Status Quo institutions and mainstream media to acknowledge social depression as a reality.
7. A systemic failure of creativity within state and private-sector institutions on how to attend to social anxiety issues.
8. The abandonment of middle class aspirations by the generations ensnared by the social anxiety: young people no longer aspire to (since they can not afford) families or homeownership.
9. A loss of hope in the young generations as an outcome of the above conditions.
The rising tide of collective anger developing from social anxiety is visible in many locations: roadway rage, violent street clashes between groups seething for a battle, the damage of friendships for holding the “inaccurate” ideological views, and so on.
The undesirable truth is that America picked economic and monetary policies that moved $50 trillion from labor to politically effective capital. If this doesn’t seem possible, please check out the RAND research study in its whole: Trends in Earnings From 1975 to 2018.
Next, check out the summary from Time.com The Top 1% of Americans Have Actually Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%– And That’s Made the U.S. Less Protect.
Here’s an excerpt:
There are some who blame the existing predicament of working Americans on structural modifications in the underlying economy– on automation, and specifically on globalization. According to this popular story, the lower earnings of the past 40 years were the unfortunate however necessary price of keeping American organizations competitive in an increasingly cutthroat international market. But in reality, the $50 trillion transfer of wealth the RAND report documents has happened completely within the American economy, not in between it and its trading partners. No, this upward redistribution of income, wealth, and power wasn’t inescapable; it was a choice– a direct outcome of the trickle-down policies we chose to carry out because 1975.
We chose to cut taxes on billionaires and to deregulate the monetary industry. We selected to permit CEOs to control share rates through stock buybacks, and to extravagantly reward themselves with the profits. We chose to permit giant corporations, through mergers and acquisitions, to collect the huge monopoly power essential to determine both costs charged and wages paid. We chose to deteriorate the minimum wage and the overtime threshold and the bargaining power of labor. For 4 years, we picked to elect politicians who put the material interests of the rich and effective above those of the American individuals.
Those who acquired the pilfered wealth credit their “hard work.” That’s not the full story. Policies stripmined labor and the middle class and funneled the trillions to well-connected capital via tax loopholes, aids, beneficial tax write-offs, household trusts and lots of other policy decisions that could only benefit the leading 0.1%, who now own more of America’s wealth than the bottom 80%.
While the bottom 50% of America’s households lost ground as their share of the nation’s wealth shrank by a third to a meager 3%, the share of the leading 1% soared by 40% to 32%.
How typically do you see recognitions that social defeat and social depression are rampant in America, and that the causes are systemic, the result of policies picked by the nation’s leadership elites? Shall we be brutally honest and admit the answer is never!.
?.!? And what do you anticipate to be served at the banquet of consequences of this systemic generation of social defeat and social anxiety!.?.!? Maybe a pendulum swing to the opposite extreme?
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