terms fitting todays toxic polarization
Posted: July 20th, 2026, 7:35 am
1. Malignant Bonding....an impulse to solidify communities built on resentment, bigotry, and a desire to exclude those who are "different"
2. The Scarcity Mind.....a psychological state that frames social life as a zero-sum game pitting oneself and one's social affinity group against a racial, ethnic, or class-based other.
3. Trans-historical Trauma....the fears and compensating behaviors that accumulate over many centuries of physical and emotional violence and become encoded in our collective behavior.
2. The Scarcity Mind.....a psychological state that frames social life as a zero-sum game pitting oneself and one's social affinity group against a racial, ethnic, or class-based other.
3. Trans-historical Trauma....the fears and compensating behaviors that accumulate over many centuries of physical and emotional violence and become encoded in our collective behavior.