for - Adverse Childhood Experiences - ACE - Aces Too High - childhood trauma - Intergenerational harm

Summary - A great resource that examines how adverse childhood experiences turns into harmful adult behavior that perpetuates the cycle - Most of the most famous pathological leaders of the modern era, including contemporary ones are examined from the perspective of their ACE

• for: Yuval Noah Harari, Hamas Israel war 2023, global liberal order, abused-abuser cycle, And not Or

• summary

  • In this interview, Yuval Noah Harari offers insights on the trap that Hamas's brutality has set for the Israeli army and reflections on the abused-abuser cycle.
  • If Israeli government falls into that trap and inflicts unprecedented collateral damage, it will scupper the chance for peace for generations to come, and Hamas will have succeeded in its goal.
  • Harari identifies a key insight that could help create better empathy between warring parties, to recognize the abused-abuser cycle and how we can be both abused AND abuser at the same time
  • Harari reflects on the breakdown of the global liberal order, offering a simple yet insightful anthropological definition of the global liberal order showing how in spite of its many flaws, fundamentally is biologically humanistic at the core. What is needed is a way to decouple the harmful features the current form of it possesses

• for: victim AND perpetrator, situatedness, perspectival knowing, AND, not OR, abused-abuser cycle, individual /collective gestalt, Hamas Israel war 2023

• quote

  • It's hard for people to understand that you can be victim and perpetrator at the same time
  • It's a very simple fact impossible to accept for most people
• author: Yuval Noah Harari
• date: Sept 2023

• for: cliche, violence begets violence, abuser-abused cycle, collective therapy

• comment

  • There is a massive need for collective therapy on all sides
    • Everyone values (human) life as sacred, yet deeds that intentionally bring about death reveals that our value of life as sacred is ONLY APPLIES TO ONE CULTURAL GROUP.
    • The creation of a relative conception of the word sacred creates
      • ingroups (where the sacred applies) and
      • outgroups (where it does not apply)
  • The intentional death of a person due to war, along with current practitioners of angst-basted anger gives rise to the next generation of hatred
  • Hence, today's abused become tomorrow's abusers
  • It is paradoxical that each side of warring cultures have highly learned religious men who give their blessings to the sacred ingroup warriors
  • It is the lack of genuine understanding of the abuser-abused cycle that keeps both sides locked in armed conflict