Imagine a family background, entangled with misery, illness, ignorance, poverty, fights, violence, manipulation and sexism. In that forest-like parenting environment, emotion is not being regulated, boundary is not being drawn.
The consistency between action and words is nowhere to be found. The uncertainty is a huge contrast to the society the new generation am choosing to stay in (where there is always the same staff in the convenience store). Life for the new generation at that time was riddled with negative surprises and emotional distress, while a abstract expectation is extremely high, to a level that the whole big family needs to be rescued physically, financially, mentally by some sort of hero whoever she or he is.
If looking at this family from the lens of a sustainability transition, this family seems to be a big unit, but is very fragmented, having a low resilience level because of the complacency (no self growth and reflection), passive government (no future action plan), vested interest (sub family unit) and lack of leadership (lack of management skill and strategy). The trigger of the change could be that the sickness of the leader, since then the narrative of being a victim is the norm, instead of ‘I made the decision, I took the consequences, I moved on’.
Simplicity doesn’t play with a family as such (where there are lots of holes need to watch out if we interact with). Complexity and chaos are happening every minute where young generation evolve into two groups. Depends on how sensitive they are to the situation, if they focus on observing actors involved, they would chase after an ideal state isolating themselves from those chaos-maker (happiness is considered to be achieved by playing with a right group of people), while the ones focus on activities and resources, they filtered or ignored those chaos makers, instead, chase after those necessary artifacts (happiness is considered to be achieved by winning some forms of competition).
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