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Life these days 🎶

#SoundCloud

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“the last few rays of light” (2008)

chill day 🤍🎮🍓

just chilling today

#video games #chill

wearing the white dress today 👗☀️

#ootd #vintage

sometimes you just need a simple jogging and a bass.

#lofi #bass #girlhood

A child with adult concerns.

alice madness returns

xoxomyah

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That was funny.

This is medicine, not psychological interpretation. When someone is placed in incomprehensible, even inhumane situations, it creates a neurological breach in the victim’s brain, causing it to shut down. The higher cortical functions become paralyzed, this can be seen on MRI scans. Stress hormones increase and become cardiotoxic; people can literally die from stress. There is significant neurological damage.

To protect itself, the brain creates a traumatic dissociation: the victim no longer feels emotions. Yet without emotions, one cannot defend oneself or counter an aggressor’s strategy.

- Muriel Salmona

It is not about control, it is about respect and dignity.

#take care of yourself #be aware #human rights #psychiatry

Definition of Meritocracy

Etymology: from merit and kratos (power, authority).

Meritocracy is a political, social, and economic system in which privilege and power are obtained through merit. Merit is based on the recognition of one’s value through degrees, experience, qualities, virtues, and achievements. Meritocracy is founded on the principles of equal opportunity, individual freedom, and the recognition of “success.”

The term meritocracy is related to aristocracy (rule exercised by the best, the most deserving, the most capable) in its original meaning, although in common language it is more often associated with the feudal system and hereditary nobility.

Napoleon Bonaparte is considered one of the first to establish a meritocratic system in Europe. Since then, France has often been cited as an example of meritocracy, particularly regarding the recognition of educational achievement. Indeed, access to the highest positions in the state (administration, judiciary, politics) or in business traditionally required, and often still requires, graduation from elite institutions (grandes écoles).

The main criticism of meritocracy is that, despite its initial egalitarian principle, it ultimately reinforces social castes. In practice, the elites already in power are the ones who define the criteria by which “merit” is recognized.

#definition