In Dark Times
May 2, 2022

The fact that neoliberal business elites easily and regularly co-opt concepts that question or challenge their hegemony (see mindfulness training as a management tool) is not an argument against the concept itself. Moral injury is a term that comes to us from the military. Soldiers who have been ordered to do things that radically alienate the doer from themselves as a moral personality have long been found to suffer from this condition. Think of Russian soliders in Ukraine. More recently, this condition has been cropping up in business organizations too, because the intensity of competition can drive people to do things that separate them from their humanity, and they end up with PTSD. In general, recognizing the rising tide of this phenomenon is to the good, in my view.

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In Dark Times
In Dark Times

Written by In Dark Times

Following the 2016 presidential election, people seemed to be saying these words repetitively — “clearly, we’re living in dark times.” indarktimes.com

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