A note on Misanthropy.
The data referenced in 'The Spirit Level' tells us that, as income inequality increases, so also does unhappiness increase.
At the same time, as income inequality increases, misanthrooy increases: misanthropy being the hatred of, distain for, fear of other people, regardless of gender (the two related words are, I think misogeny and misandry: hatred of all gendered women and hatred of all gendered men).
These are firms, I suggest, of psychological displacement: the unhappiness that income inequality creates (at a neurological, neurochemical basis, I also suggest) 'concretises' (turns from abstract feels and emotions, to practical, concrete objects and objectification) these neurochemical developments.
I recall, for example, a million kr so years ago, when I had a Summer-time job in a bottling line at Schweppes in Footscray, reaslising that I 'hated' the women workers opposite me: my hatred for the repetitive job, wrongly-projected onto them.
Likewise our responses to the lock-down and the lock-down on George Floyd's neck: taking the knee, as it were.
The solution, of course, is income equality, socially-determined.
As in the plan for Co-operative Socialism.
But you know that already . . .
Fourth First Day, June 2020
The data referenced in 'The Spirit Level' tells us that, as income inequality increases, so also does unhappiness increase.
At the same time, as income inequality increases, misanthrooy increases: misanthropy being the hatred of, distain for, fear of other people, regardless of gender (the two related words are, I think misogeny and misandry: hatred of all gendered women and hatred of all gendered men).
These are firms, I suggest, of psychological displacement: the unhappiness that income inequality creates (at a neurological, neurochemical basis, I also suggest) 'concretises' (turns from abstract feels and emotions, to practical, concrete objects and objectification) these neurochemical developments.
I recall, for example, a million kr so years ago, when I had a Summer-time job in a bottling line at Schweppes in Footscray, reaslising that I 'hated' the women workers opposite me: my hatred for the repetitive job, wrongly-projected onto them.
Likewise our responses to the lock-down and the lock-down on George Floyd's neck: taking the knee, as it were.
The solution, of course, is income equality, socially-determined.
As in the plan for Co-operative Socialism.
But you know that already . . .
Fourth First Day, June 2020
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