Collective meaning-making is the antidote to shock and exploitation.

Evidence

“Gather together, find your footing and your story.” That is the advice I have been giving for two decades about how to stay out of shock during moments of collective trauma. Metabolize the shock together, I would tell people, create meaning together. Resist the tin-pot tyrants who will tell you that the world is now a blank sheet for them to write their violent stories upon. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 21

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to her prior Shock Doctrine framework and disaster capitalism work — the ‘blank sheet’ phrasing echoes Naomi Wolf and neoconservative ‘blank slate’ world-building. — connects to: The unified self is a fragile construction sustained against the lure of dissolution. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 48