Social-Psychosis

Social-Psychosis:

When a given society exhibits signs of unreasonable delusions & harmful attitudes while disregarding logical cures.

Major Causes (in no particular order):

- Socially constructed identities, usually subjected & permitted to power structures, w/o opportunity to form an un-harassed opinion of these structures beforehand e.g. gender role stereotypes, racial identity, social status, etc. often intensifying gender, class, & racial marginalization.

- Lack of outlets to reconstruct power structures.

- Denial of substantiated scientific facts.

- Prisons – Private prison proliferation – Criminal Obsession Disorder – Recycled rhetoric of slaveholders - Passive observation of repetitive & terrifying human captivity - Framework enabling unconstitutional & excessive surveillance/policing of citizens.

- Animal slavery – Severe disrespect & disassociation for non-homo sapiens – Inflamed species ego – Extreme anti-symbiotic tendencies.

- Wage slavery – Proliferated inequality/decreased standards of living exacerbated by intense self interest, lust for possessions, & corporate rapacity - (It is not merely zero-sum thinking to acknowledge extreme disparity of wealth in society as detrimental & unnecessary).

- Religion – Specifically concerning belief structures that repress reason & promote hierarchical power over “others” - Often these belief structures uphold archaic value judgements to further entrench stratification without validity.

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Personal morality & ethics can guide us into more decent attitudes for humanity when built in logical discussion & yet can be derailed when built in delusion. Our morals & ethics are primarily colored by social structures we inhabit.

4 concerns when re-framing these structures:

1. Lines between identities: i.e. self reliance & group reliance. Consider freedom & civic responsibility. Privacy & transparency, etc.

2. Equal access to necessities, (clean food/water, power, shelter, medicine, etc.)

3. The forms of individual & community values we preserve.

4. Effective collaboration & communication.

We must learn from history yet be bold enough to envision a human experiment more beautiful than previously executed or imagined. GREGORY MARK SONDROL © 04/03/2020