{"id":376,"date":"2010-05-06T18:38:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=376"},"modified":"2013-09-14T15:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T19:26:27","slug":"more-from-bruce-levine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"More from Bruce Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucelevine.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surviving America\u2019s Depression Epidemic, by Bruce Levine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the human need to be contemplative without regard for productivity and efficiency, and given America\u2019s taboo against nonproductivity and inefficiency, Americans, in a sense, are pushed toward illness.\u00a0 &#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cIf you believe, as consumer culture instructs us, that depression is wholly bad, then you try to eradicate it. &#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cConsumer culture is more about selling products aimed at diverting people from emotional pain than healing the source of the pain, and it promotes products that must be purchased at a significant cost &#8230;\u00a0 (e.g. synthetic drugs).\u00a0 The natural crafts of transforming emotional pain to energy and healing emotional wounds are not great consumer products because they are available to us without money.<br \/>\n\u201c&#8230;\u00a0 The faith of consumer culture is that all pain, tensions and discomfort should be eliminated by industrial products and services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraditional Lakota and Blackfoot cultures celebrate joy, attempt to remedy suffering, and have healers; however, these cultures also accept that discomfort is part of life.\u00a0 Instead of trying to completely eradicate pain and discomfort, many traditional peoples attempt to deal with discomfort, pain, and death in a humane and dignified manner.\u00a0 Adulthood, in many nonconsumer cultures, is not primarily a chronological milestone; adults are differentiated from children after they have learned not to be controlled by a fear of discomfort, pain, and death.\u00a0 Traditional Lakota and Blackfoot adults know about <em>healing<\/em>, <em>dignity<\/em>, <em>humor<\/em>, <em>courage<\/em>, and <em>self-control<\/em>.\u00a0 They also understand that pain has meaning.\u00a0 They understand that one can never truly know how to treat another in pain without ever having been in pain.\u00a0 Without pain how does one learn <em>compassion<\/em>, <em>patience<\/em>, <em>duty<\/em>, and <em>gentleness<\/em>.\u201d pp80-81<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Surviving America\u2019s Depression Epidemic, by Bruce Levine \u201cGiven the human need to be contemplative without regard for productivity and efficiency, and given America\u2019s taboo against nonproductivity and inefficiency, Americans, in a sense, are pushed toward illness.\u00a0 &#8230; \u201cIf you believe, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-interesting-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}