Good morning from the Left Coast.
When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.'
What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that focusing on one layer can obscure the others.
So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion.
I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!
Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!
Marshall
Grief and the New Year
being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr)
awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect)
social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic)
economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression)
personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement
grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction events
grief is a natural social process
holding on and letting go
grief and transformation
individual grief and corporate grief
denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships