The problem of the modern recession is very simple - modern society blames the victim and regulates the sensitive. It does not respect freedom of assembly, rights to privacy, or due process. Instead, it forces people to have their meetings of the minds, offer and acceptance, and consent violated through duress, intimidation, harassment, negligence, and provocation.
In turn, the creative thinking and problem solving required to spur prosperity is perpetually vulnerable to disturbance. Society insists on regulating the disturbed rather than holding the negligent responsible for their negligence. That is the disturbed are psychologically professionalized, institutionalized, and medicated rather than the disturbing being sent to jail and being forced to pay damages. It takes a utilitarian rather than deontological perspective on ethics.
Put simply, pragmatism has gone awry. People are entitled to bully one another into conforming to normal authority. Those who don’t conform are blamed as impractical rather than allowing people the freedom and liberty to come to their own practical judgments.
This becomes reinforced through the paradox of self-objectification where bullies claim that they’re provoked by their victims and that victims don’t grasp social cues. In turn, bullies claim their self-control has been disengaged, and they couldn’t help themselves from incapacitating victims. On the other hand, if victims turn around and use the same reason to claim provocation against a third party, they’re told it doesn’t apply because of arbitrary context.
It is impossible for the modern recession to be overcome until this psychological necessity is corrected.
Thoughts?