This peaceful surface, Briggs would discover, was undergirded by a powerful system of emotional control and social regulation. Expressions of anger, shock, romantic ardor, and other strong feelings were all but absent from everyday life, except among very small children. One informant even denied that the Inuit language had a word for “hate”—although of course it does. Briggs’s host family’s oldest daughter was among the first children to attend a residential school. When she returned for the summer, she brought back horror stories of a “strange [white] world where people are always loud and angry…where they hit their children, let babies cry, kiss grown-ups, and make pets of dogs and cats.”

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4358924&forum_id=2#38944690)

“The theory I have is that [Inuit] who commit suicide are doing it to protect the community,” Bonnie, an Inuit government official, told me.

When we lived in small groups, we had a contract for survival. You lived for the collective, not for yourself. We’re in this together. Children are conditioned to be calm. If someone explodes, that person is a threat to everyone. Then [the one who explodes] thinks, “Everyone will be better off without me. I’m a problem because I can’t handle my emotions.” It’s hard to get that out of your head, because we’re conditioned not to be a burden to others."

These people are very high IQ and had extremely rich inner lives and basically perfect societies and birdshit nastiness along with alcohol and drugs absolutely destroyed them

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4358924&forum_id=2#38944710)

American "society" (use that term loosely) is completely done here

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4358924&forum_id=2#38945894)