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Shame seems not to have disappeared. Contemporary culture wars invoke and wield shame effectively, so it’s still there. Perhaps it’s just become unmoored from i

Shame seems not to have disappeared. Contemporary culture wars invoke and wield shame effectively, so it’s still there. Perhaps it’s just become unmoored from its traditional groundings?

teddyh 4y ago
> Contemporary culture wars invoke and wield shame effectively I’m not sure that’s true. They certainly attempt to cast shame, but more often than not, they fail to incite it, and fall back to ostracism and excommunication. Could the rise of those latter phenomena be explained by a decline in shame?
- fwipsy 4y ago
  Doesn't ostracism work through shame?
  - teddyh 4y ago
    No? How do you mean?
  - cafard 4y ago
    Ostracism works through shunning. In the original, Athenian sense, it was simply exile; you couldn't be in Attica for a term of years.