Spent 24h studying world events, felt elevated by western solidarity🇺🇦. Also reminded of millions of dead the US & allies have created (and continue to create) in the middle east since 1991. In several countries, we play the role of the Russians. Hold both these realities close. As you watch Russian choppers land in residential neighborhoods, tanks rolling down suburban streets
& see average European families shield their children and take up arms. As you support them and pray for them - know that you are watching from the view of the invaded.

The middle-class is where we learned to render inert, the revolutionary political potential of the proletariat and the working class. It's where we learned to propose justice as theory, rather than a tangible good. It is the site where we receive the anesthesia of comfort capitalism. Where we take a "balanced view"-- we learn to be "anti-war" but still "support the troops," "to respect police" but still "support Black Lives"-- a place where we recognize oppression but do little about it.

Pupdate- we think she has pancreatitis but we aren't completely sure. Going to be a long night with a pacing, occasionally yelping fur baby. 😞 Nevermind. We're back at the vet. Poor baby.

The crisis we see in suburban America is similar to the decline of the working class. The modernist rationality of the suburbs is losing hegemonic gravity d/t further neoliberal erosion of community, institutions, and uncertainty= new politics of rage, despair, denial, & apathy. Anyone who has lost their formerly liberal Boomer parents to the right wing extremist senses this subtle crisis. Gen X, as the lost generation of the neoliberal age, bore witness to the epistemic displacement of the American Dream and it's fading allure.

@Matthew60323922 @maiasz @BenLevenson @DrSarahWakeman @UnhealthyAlcDrg @theNASEM Prob. a good time to tell you I don't believe in treatment in it's current form. I would never work in a treatment facility. Much less, for-profit. The therapeutic tactic you refer to is not very useful and may be harmful. Yet, "denial" is still a chief symptom. Debate is how. @Matthew60323922 @maiasz @BenLevenson @DrSarahWakeman @UnhealthyAlcDrg @theNASEM There are scientific reasons why people develop "denial." The question is how to identity, and puncture hardened denial structures w/o causing harm. The "old way" of confrontational tactics and shaming can cause more harm than good and is usually contraindicated. Tx has few tools