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A shame based culture is a collectivist society where participants serve a "role" rather than exist as an individual. Cohesion is maintained by instilling a sense of "helplessness" in members by convincing them that their traits are "flawed" and make them fundamentally "broken people" if they do not conform to that role. Cohesion is maintained by keeping everyone into their specific roles and shaming those who diverge from them.
This society uses human psychology by capitalizing on learned helplessness, a phenomenon brought by the minds desire to avoid failure and painful outcomes when it expects there to be a painful outcome. This manifests itself early in school, often leading to uncritical students who may have poor coping mechanisms for adult life unless they receive serious intervention.
We live in what I like to call a rentier capitalist society. In this society, we hold value in land speculation, often leading to ballooning prices in cities that eventually collapse in on itself in recessions. This rentier capitalism is fueled by neoliberalism and Keynesianism, two modes of theory that encourage inflation, tariffs and high taxes. This does nothing to prevent recessions and only burdens a nation with more unsustainable debt and high taxation. Let us focus on neoliberalism, to boil this ideology down to its simple point, it encourages a state to be a vassal of Land owners, any fight against this leads to the neoliberal deflecting to personal issues with the individual, "they didn't work hard" or "they don't know how good they have it". These statements aren't arguments, they're platitudes meant to deflect a system. They are cult like beliefs that require collectivism.
So in work, school, social media and even public gatherings, you are constantly instilled about how better someone is doing, or how they worked hard for something or how your problems aren't problems, but it is a load of hogwash. These "Winner's" are overpaying for their success in a system that will bust and rot away society from under them, but they keep chanting the same lines over and over again. What this means for those who fail or don't obide by neoliberalism's plans for their life will be shamed, not treated as individuals, but shamed as a "role" a "pawn" who must behave a certain way.
We throw away our guilt based society because we lost the ability to see the results of morality in a rigged and unfair system.
This society uses human psychology by capitalizing on learned helplessness, a phenomenon brought by the minds desire to avoid failure and painful outcomes when it expects there to be a painful outcome. This manifests itself early in school, often leading to uncritical students who may have poor coping mechanisms for adult life unless they receive serious intervention.
We live in what I like to call a rentier capitalist society. In this society, we hold value in land speculation, often leading to ballooning prices in cities that eventually collapse in on itself in recessions. This rentier capitalism is fueled by neoliberalism and Keynesianism, two modes of theory that encourage inflation, tariffs and high taxes. This does nothing to prevent recessions and only burdens a nation with more unsustainable debt and high taxation. Let us focus on neoliberalism, to boil this ideology down to its simple point, it encourages a state to be a vassal of Land owners, any fight against this leads to the neoliberal deflecting to personal issues with the individual, "they didn't work hard" or "they don't know how good they have it". These statements aren't arguments, they're platitudes meant to deflect a system. They are cult like beliefs that require collectivism.
So in work, school, social media and even public gatherings, you are constantly instilled about how better someone is doing, or how they worked hard for something or how your problems aren't problems, but it is a load of hogwash. These "Winner's" are overpaying for their success in a system that will bust and rot away society from under them, but they keep chanting the same lines over and over again. What this means for those who fail or don't obide by neoliberalism's plans for their life will be shamed, not treated as individuals, but shamed as a "role" a "pawn" who must behave a certain way.
We throw away our guilt based society because we lost the ability to see the results of morality in a rigged and unfair system.





