Is civilization suffering from PTSD? When you get into an accident you go into shock which is also the way the body protects itself. But what about the body politic? Is it numbed or prone to violent outbursts as a way of dealing with violence? It is a popularly held misconception that people become inured to their own suffering. Actually, every action produces another wish or hope and opposite reaction according to Newton's Third Law. Aftershock is what you have when an earthquake hits. Apres coup is the psychoanalytic term.
read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn
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