Got any good reads on what happens to people dealing with the aftermath of moral injury in being politically manipulated and coerced by their own leaders? After political indoctrination schemes collapse there has to be some examples of recovery and reassessment  to rebuild something other. I know, I know; I hear you saying that to have effects of moral injury, they have to have decent morals to begin with. Yet it is told within psychologist circles, moral injury almost always pivots with the dimension of time. Deeply held values and beliefs evolve alongside identities, and transitions inform perspectives that form new conclusions about old events.

So if identity informs your core codes, yet it is slippery. there are some aspects of identity, how you relate that change over time and with experiences. In very manipulative and coercive political ideologies, where has this played out and people switched gears?

The ideologues can't all take it to the end times? We made it this far after all. Humans are strangely resilient against all odds, this can't be all due to the evolutionary pressure of cannabinoid receptors providing a necessary mechanism to forget the basic traumas of living in dysfunctional situations.

Last edited by Johnny_Rotten (2025-03-02 21:08:07)

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