Seeing public events get increasingly disrupted by screamers struck me for how normalized this behaviour has become. When confronted with a bodily assault in public discourse, too many simply fold.
Our very ability to think is contingent on experiences that can only come from having a physical body, and which unfold in specific ways because of our distinct perceptual and motor capabilities.
Developmental psychologist Esther Thelen explains that thinking itself arises from our bodily interactions with the world. These abilities are inseparably linked, forming the matrix of memory, emotion, and language.
Screaming is gaining power in social discourse because our overly rational culture is built on denying some important embodied realities, empowering the most irrational amongst us.
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