Connor Beaton argues that disrupting people's sense of reality makes them vulnerable to new narratives. He traces this to the COVID era, when society fractured into opposing camps with no shared ground. When dialogue breaks down, force becomes inevitable.
So the more that you can disrupt somebody's psyche, the more likely they are to buy a specific narrative. In alchemy, there's something called the negredo. It is the alchemical psychological experience of having things that were once stable begin to break down. And we've entered into this negredo years ago. You might say that we entered into the negredo right around COVID. People have started to move into different silos, different groups or encampments of beliefs and ideology that are so vastly opposing that you can't find any level of agreement or coherence. The truth is that when disagreement becomes so prominent and agreement is not possible, if you and I can't sit down and have some type of discourse and conversation around our disagreements to have a shared agreed-upon version of reality where we can both exist, The end outcome is the use of force.
How to Raise Strong, Unshakable Boys in Today's Culture, with Dr. Shefali Tsabary
