I don’t think he’s talking about concrete actions to take in response to a given scenario. He’s talking about the broader emotional reaction.
When someone experiences trauma and says ‘what am I supposed to do now?’ they’re not asking for literal instructions, they’re expressing emotional turmoil.
Not really. If you have a child, all the adults and elderly come out with their advice, what’s often conflicting or just doesn’t apply for you. There’s so much of the classic remedies and stuff that just doesn’t work. And these days society is changing so much and so fast that any advice from the previous decade is already outdated.
Doesn’t this come from people being isolated as consumers? Adults could know most things if we had a better working society.
I don’t think he’s talking about concrete actions to take in response to a given scenario. He’s talking about the broader emotional reaction.
When someone experiences trauma and says ‘what am I supposed to do now?’ they’re not asking for literal instructions, they’re expressing emotional turmoil.
Even that, couldn’t we live in a society that creates the needed support?
Not really. If you have a child, all the adults and elderly come out with their advice, what’s often conflicting or just doesn’t apply for you. There’s so much of the classic remedies and stuff that just doesn’t work. And these days society is changing so much and so fast that any advice from the previous decade is already outdated.
I think isolation is a big part of it, yes.
In more tight-knit communities there would be less guesswork (at the risk of weird traditions, though)