I’ve been reading about trauma lately, speaking as a basically low/no-trauma person (afaik) and one of my conclusions is that the majority of the world is low-grade trauma-driven and it manifests as being in war mode by default, peace mode by exception. Guess I’m rather lucky in having the reverse orientation.

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I buy it. I’m general a trauma rooted response to something is pretty hard to control, because a fish doesn’t know it is wet. Buttress that with some kind of in-group pride and you’ve got a recipe for conflict-seeking defaults.

Takes a lot of effort to just chill. And might not be advantageous.