What it Means to Live in an Abusive Society, and Why We Do

Our Societies Resemble Victims of Severe Abuse. And We Think and Feel Like Them, Too.

Image Credit: Maya Stevenson

There’s a line I hear regularly that leaves me a little bereft. It goes like this: “It’s better than nothing!” I wrote recently, for example, that Biden’s infrastructure plan is not, as some are calling it, a New Deal, and how it needs to be much larger to make a dent in the problems America is facing. And again I heard — as …