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1. I am struck again ths morning, as marches are being set up all over Britain in defense of democracy, by the way Brexit is based in attachment processes. @fotoole helps us see that. “Emotionally, Brexit is fuelled by anxiety. The great salve to anxiety is the sense of control.” 
2. @fotoole, in explaining Brexit, is speaking to t same processes @ThriveApproach does: Being needs. “Being a person [a man] who was able to endure anything others cd inflict, stoical, uncomplaining.” Brexit arises out of ideas about “character”. These are all attachment themes.
4. In @fotoole analysis, Brexit arises from the same themes @TIGERS_UK is trying to address in their #ManUp campaign & their @ICANScot_ male mentoring initiative. How do we stop raising boys that have to deny their own feelings? That’s an attachment question.
5. The devastating emotional impacts of Boarding School Syndrome, which @GeorgeMonbiot & others speak abt, & which I highlight in some events? Here it is in @fotoole . “The toughening up by cruelty of children in public schools so they can inflict themselves on lesser peoples.”
6. Here is t piece I use so often in training events - frm the @guardian , long before we had Brexit, which helps us see how attachment needs become warped whn educ doesn’t allow loss & grief to be felt. The “leaders” who emerge are emotionally crippled. theguardian.com/education/2014…
7. “Losing everything & not whining about it.” Claire Fox said on @edbookfest panel that there is no youth mental health crisis, that our young people just aren’t tough enough these days. @fotoole helps us see that Brexit depends on resonating w/ cultural emotional narratives.
8. “Brexit is abt t anxiety around the loss of the natural order of things.” A @BBCRadioScot radio debate w/ Kay Adams on “the natural order of t power of adults over children” was discussed ths week at @TheCareReview meeting. @children1st efforts on smacking ban address ths too.
9. I am simply trying to show in this thread how attachment themes lie at the heart of Brexit. Its source was never economics. @fotoole political/historical analysis ties to so much else being talked abt right now in our country: ACES, early years, stress, inequalities of course.
10(end). I think we are better placed to respond to Brexit if we can see t underlying themes of attachment. We are wiser whn we don’t live in confusion or denial.That’s why I keep talking abt them. But right now, I need to get ready to attend my local democracy march.Thanks, all.
