I agree with most of what you said. Not trying to call out all the “sickos”, but experience cannot but inform individual decision making & worldview to the extent where intersubjectivity becomes increasingly difficult. It can be unavoidable to turn inward. The relating and reflecting of personal/shared trauma is undervalued and often stigmatized in our culture, this aversion becomes psychopathy in my opinion.
Additionally, I want to say we can look and understand those “machinations of the production process”, such as the historical phenomenon of bringing bonded labor from the Slave Coast or India or elsewhere within an empire to undermine the domestic price of labor and stoke sociocultual/“racial” tension within underclasses of another place. And when we do we can see that the burdens & the bloodshed caused by these race & gender & national identity issues are almost always carried by those underclasses.
For instance, Trinidad & Tobago have an almost equal divide between East Indian descended & Afro-Caribbean populations. The racial and cultural hierarchy plays out much as you’d expect, but it’s all reflected through the prism of British Imperial history & the ways that labor was exploited in the past. That’s what’s fucked up!
Class & its nefarious stranglehold on gender works the same way in South Korea, one of the most ethnically/culturally homogeneous countries on the planet, as it does in Papua New Guinea and America. Women have it the toughest.
America only has the added benefit/curse of observing how these historical social/cultural/gender/economic divides get heated up in the modern crucible of internationally liberalized capital flows.
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I agree with most of what you said. Not trying to call out all the “sickos”, but experience cannot but inform individual decision making & worldview to the extent where intersubjectivity becomes increasingly difficult. It can be unavoidable to turn inward. The relating and reflecting of personal/shared trauma is undervalued and often stigmatized in our culture, this aversion becomes psychopathy in my opinion.
Additionally, I want to say we can look and understand those “machinations of the production process”, such as the historical phenomenon of bringing bonded labor from the Slave Coast or India or elsewhere within an empire to undermine the domestic price of labor and stoke sociocultual/“racial” tension within underclasses of another place. And when we do we can see that the burdens & the bloodshed caused by these race & gender & national identity issues are almost always carried by those underclasses.
For instance, Trinidad & Tobago have an almost equal divide between East Indian descended & Afro-Caribbean populations. The racial and cultural hierarchy plays out much as you’d expect, but it’s all reflected through the prism of British Imperial history & the ways that labor was exploited in the past. That’s what’s fucked up!
Class & its nefarious stranglehold on gender works the same way in South Korea, one of the most ethnically/culturally homogeneous countries on the planet, as it does in Papua New Guinea and America. Women have it the toughest.
America only has the added benefit/curse of observing how these historical social/cultural/gender/economic divides get heated up in the modern crucible of internationally liberalized capital flows.
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