Debacle
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Debacle
A Debacle is a catastrophic personal or collective failure to attain Full Potential, typically the consequences of a failure establish even a semblence of Alignment and Connection. A Personal Debacle occurs usually when an individual Essential Needs are thwarted. A Collective Debacle occurs when a society or a species' technological, administrative, economic, and military prowess outpaces its progress on healing and reconnection.
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A personal debacle is characterized by psychological, emotional, and physiological collapse. it is "hitting rock bottom."
A collective debacle is characterized by ecological, economic, social, political, and military spiral into self-destruction.
A collective debacle typically occurs because a disconnected species is being "held back" and consequently cannot unfold enough to handle the powers provided by advanced financial, technological, and administrative capacity.
Collective debacles typically do not wipe out a society or species, but they can cause an inordinate amount of unnecessary suffering, and they can set things back years, decades, or even centuries. For this reason, an Intervention may be staged to facilitate Graduation.
Maslow's Thoughts
In an unpublished article entitled The Psychology of Tragedy, Abraham Maslow provides a wash list of personal and collective debacles, i.e., failures to align,connect, and actuate Full Potential. "being ejected from the Garden of Eden" (a state of aligned connection), "what would have been," "lack of fulfillment," "the cutting-off of growth," "the interruption of the smooth working-out of one’s promise, faith, calling, mission, or vocation by external catastrophe, illness, or death..."[2] As Maslow says, "Most of these dilemmas are gaps between what we are and what we could be or where we are and where we could be..."[3]
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- ↑ TODO, add an entry for Maslow's view of Tragedy which is basically a tentative recognition of the emotional and psychological consequences of failure to achieve one's Full Potential
- ↑ Maslow, Abraham H. “The Psychology of Tragedy.” In Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow, edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 53
- ↑ Maslow, Abraham H. “The Psychology of Tragedy.” In Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow, edited by Edward Hoffman. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 54