I partially agree with you. The dangers of this over fascination with trauma are real and need safeguards to make sure people don't go hunting for it and then embrace it like an excuse for lifelong victimhood, which is often what happens in our present culture.
But your comment "By that logic, a complete breakdown in the face of a microag…
I partially agree with you. The dangers of this over fascination with trauma are real and need safeguards to make sure people don't go hunting for it and then embrace it like an excuse for lifelong victimhood, which is often what happens in our present culture.
But your comment "By that logic, a complete breakdown in the face of a microaggression could be no different from the onset of post-traumatic disorder caused by a physical assault, or watching fellow soldiers die on a battlefield." should be examined because in some sense "trauma" is subjective. It's also a function of culture. For example contrast the resilience of most people in one that preaches "sticks and stones can hurt me but words can't..." vs. one that tells you that every microaggression is like a physical assault. The fact is a person can indeed be traumatized by things that ideally should not bother them in a healthier milieu. It happens precisely because the culture insists they are being victimized. Witness our mental health crisis.
Humans are capable of great resilience AND of equally great self-pity. In that sense it is a subjective experience.
I don't think the theory of trauma being posited is entirely wrong but its application in today's culture of everything-is-victimhood is the lethal combination we have to watch out for.
I partially agree with you. The dangers of this over fascination with trauma are real and need safeguards to make sure people don't go hunting for it and then embrace it like an excuse for lifelong victimhood, which is often what happens in our present culture.
But your comment "By that logic, a complete breakdown in the face of a microaggression could be no different from the onset of post-traumatic disorder caused by a physical assault, or watching fellow soldiers die on a battlefield." should be examined because in some sense "trauma" is subjective. It's also a function of culture. For example contrast the resilience of most people in one that preaches "sticks and stones can hurt me but words can't..." vs. one that tells you that every microaggression is like a physical assault. The fact is a person can indeed be traumatized by things that ideally should not bother them in a healthier milieu. It happens precisely because the culture insists they are being victimized. Witness our mental health crisis.
Humans are capable of great resilience AND of equally great self-pity. In that sense it is a subjective experience.
I don't think the theory of trauma being posited is entirely wrong but its application in today's culture of everything-is-victimhood is the lethal combination we have to watch out for.