Not Just Bad Apples: The Domination Hierarchy as a Trauma Factory

The billionaire bros want to dominate the world through technology. Their incestuous and insatiable greed involves trauma. Lots of trauma.

The domination hierarchy creates the conditions for traumatized individuals to rise within it, while also ensuring its survival. A rigid, high-control system fosters adaptations that reinforce it: dissociation from empathy, compulsive control, and a drive to dominate or be dominated.

People don’t just happen to act in these ways; their environment shapes them,  and the environment has been engineered over generations to favor those who can thrive within it.

Those who lack access to power are conditioned into submission or survival strategies that keep them from disrupting the structure. Those who rise in the hierarchy often do so because they have the traits and adaptations that allow them to wield power without being overwhelmed by its moral weight.

A system like this requires trauma. It selects for individuals whose nervous systems have adapted to survive in dominance-based structures, whether through aggression, manipulation, or calculated detachment.

Once in power, they reinforce the mechanisms that shaped them, ensuring that the next generation is formed in the same mold.

The hierarchy isn’t just fostering traumatized individuals; it is built on trauma, self-perpetuating, and designed to keep its logic intact. That’s why breaking it requires disrupting the conditions that make these adaptations necessary in the first place.

This post includes content generated by ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI. The AI-generated content has been reviewed and edited for accuracy and relevance.

About Shay Seaborne, CPTSD

Former tall ship sailor turned trauma awareness activist-artist Shay Seaborne, CPTSD has studied the neurobiology of fear / trauma /PTSD since 2015. She writes, speaks, teaches, and makes art to convey her experiences as well as her understanding of the neurobiology of fear, trauma theory, and principles of trauma recovery. A native of Northern Virginia, Shay settled in Delaware to sail KALMAR NYCKEL, the state’s tall ship. She wishes everyone could recognize PTSD is not a mental health problem, but a neurophysiological condition rooted in dysregulation, our mainstream culture is neuro-negative, and we need to understand we can heal ourselves and each other through awareness, understanding, and safe connection.
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