Grief in American Society and Politics

Julie Hotard
Sep 5, 2018 · 2 min read

I just read this interesting article here on Medium.

Why I Worry About My Generation: What Does it Feel Like Growing Up in a Collapsing World? by Umair Haque

It was a great article, about all the grief young people experience today. If this generation wants to do better and feel better than the ones before it, the key will be to find ways to process grief. When friends emotionally support one another in processing their grief, this can be invaluable. There are also 12 Step groups that many people join and make use of for such purposes. Letting go of grief takes time, though it can eventually allow joy to emerge more often.

Here is a TLDR for the history of the U.S. Part of U.S. history is about people who came from poor places, left everyone they knew back home, and then seized the economic opportunity available here. They tried to forget their losses, and left their grief work on the back burner, to be done later if ever. Some groups slaughtered and enslaved others, leaving even more backed up grief in their wake.

In the mean time, some people compulsively grabbed more and more economic opportunity. They did this because they had forgotten about many parts of life. They deluded themselves that this was 100% of the meaning of life. They became greed heads, addicted to money. These people came to rule the rest of the population, due to the power of money to buy government.

Below are some stress release/relief techniques that I use.
De-stressing in the Age of Trump

I may write more on this later.

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