“The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s ‘death master file,’ which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead.”

"We roam the desolate architecture of our slaughter houses (“the prison of civilization we live in”) like ghosts who feel but cannot quite understand the vapidity of our existence."

Nancy Wolff: “We don’t see the person, we’ve decomposed them into these statistics” #riskassessment #probability. The antidote = emotional support for ppl to feel safe enough to tell what they’ve kept hidden #PersonCentredTreatment #IALMH2019

On my post about the nature of foundation sacrifice and it's similarities to #thecycleofgenocide, I discussed this dynamic of civilizations being absorbed or supplanted similar to rituals of foundation sacrifice.