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Common sources of dark energy to sustain the psyche past social death: - Criminal underworld - Finance - Law enforcement - Going to fight in a war - Supervillain identity - Exile/refugee community life Any others?
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I'd argue even those are founts of social energy: the whole appeal / nostalgia of becoming a criminal, soldier or cop is the brotherhood and comradery for people who couldn't hack civilian social life, isn't it? they're more like... genres of social being for non-normies
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The difference is that they are not legitimized by the grand narrative (law enforcement is valorized symbolically as NPCs on main stage in ceremonial uniform but nobody actually wants to know about the dirty work they do; even tv shows are highly sanitized)