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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When most people go on the warpath they’re merely switching from cold war to hot war mode. They’ve never actually experienced peace or the feeling of consciously deciding to pick a fight and making clear-eyed preparations to fight. They’re “that’s my secret Cap, I’m always angry” like Hulk.