Incongruence between different infrastructures…

the hard working miners got brännvin as wage for their work (about brännvin in Swedish, Swedes started burning brännvin already 600 years ago). Needed to benumb themselves to survive their hard lives? More photos from this area.

[Updated with a video in the end] Peter Währborg (see the other postings about him here) writes at page 308 in the book mentioned in these postings about incongruence* between different infrastructures. He says that stress occurs not only as a phenomenon within different infrastructures when “intern oppositions/antagonisms (? Motsättningar in Swedish)” are at hand. Stress is also an expression for the incongruence which occurs between infrastructures. He gives us an example:

A child needs access to long term and unbroken relationships to adults for its harmonic development. If the social system doesn’t provide with resources which make this possible we get problems. The grown up individual often thinks he or she should be more at home with the children (or spouse?), this is a common apprehension (uppfattning). And thinks he/she ought to this and that. See earlier posting on "Surrogate mirrors..."

However, the social system also provide with more and partially contradicting values, as you ought to have an education, be successful etc. The norm and valuation systems (värderingssystem) are indistinct and therefore this creates conflicts within the particular individual. This conflict can in turn be enough for causing that biological stress reactions are started.

He thinks that stress has occurred since the origin of man. The decisive difference between then and now is its extension and seriousness now. Which can be ascribed the society’s faster and faster change.

During the agrarian period the social stress was minor, but there existed another societal control (much harder in a way). The society was more marked or clear (tydligt) because the society was smaller. People could handle things "better" then (including internal problems, problems due to child abuse, or they turned mad?) because the information flow wasn’t as enormous as it is today and the social structure not as complicated.

With the industrial society and later the information society the demands started to grow. Social, psychic and biologic stress became more usual because the demands on adaptation to the variable (to changes) increased.

Währborg discusses two types of stress in his book: the aggressive or the exhaustion or fatigue stress.

Nothing above is new though?

And doesn’t Miller write about this? Earlier people could handle things "better", because they knew nothing else than what was present in their small world there and then.

And aggressions (and all different feelings) got other outlets then?

And what are aggressions about? What do aggressions lead to? What do needs for power lead to? Both on a private, personal level as on a societal and even global level? Do we handle things constructively or are we driven by more or less conscious emotions, feelings or needs?

Some people are (brutally) forced to process their early things? For their survival... And what about the society in whole??

*with congruence he means homogeneity or grade of accordance, for example between a thought and a feeling. Incongruence is the opposite.

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