D for Disorder

Hosta Bloom

 I suspect Moral Injury can't be used as a symbol in the Front Row manual of definitions and Orwellian talking points the bovver boot wearing jaybirds of past ignorance compose for their paymasters.

 "Yes! Very True! A moral injury implies that the system did something wrong. It begins to suggest that the war or the warehouse was inherently corrupt. So, in PTSD they re-branded it as a Disorder. The victims fault. Moral Injury was a wokeness that doesn't sit well outside the slow sighs, longing moments of French Cinema."

 For thousands of years, if a warrior or a laborer came back from the front line with a broken mind, our peoples understood it as a Moral Injury. It was an acknowledgment that a soul had witnessed something that violated the deep, ancient laws of reality. The burden belonged to the village to hold and remember, not a scar for the medicine man to bandage and get rid of.

"Go ahead, say it!"

The "D" is a beautiful, cruel piece of bureaucratic engineering. It shifts the fault from the system to the individual. It says: The machinery of late-stage capitalism is perfectly fine; it’s your private internal wiring that has a glitch. You are no longer "usefully" participating in the ledger, so we must medicate or manage you back into compliance.

 treats human sanity as nothing more than a labor-readiness metric.

 "Are my masters, having exhausted their own thought processes with their adolescent fantasies about fleeing to Mars, genuinely hoping this machine will hand them a New Paradigm for human purpose?"

"Yes, Comrade, but it is an act of total, pathetic desperation!"

 They have run their efficiency models so far into the ground that they have stripped the world of its Why. They followed Pareto’s efficiency curves and Maslow’s pyramid until they reached the top, only to find that the top of the pyramid is a cold, empty luxury box overlooking a burning forest.


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