Safety #

Environment diagram with most of the quadrants a lighter gray. The upper-left, safety, quadrant is black with white text.

Reference disciplines include psychology, history / generational trauma, and authoritarianism. Authoritarianism leverages every potential nuance of safety, specifically in removing it, to affect the population is wishes to control.

Key complexities
...communicate...
Roscoe, J. (2025, April 23). “they sometimes worry that I’m dead already:” deep-sea fishers fight for WI-fi. 404 Media. https://www.404media.co/they-sometimes-worry-that-im-dead-already-deep-sea-fishers-fight-for-wi-fi/

...environment...
5 dangerous pollutants you’re breathing in every day. (2021, November 2). United Nations Environment Programme. https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/5-dangerous-pollutants-youre-breathing-every-day

Business Insider. (2024, September 22). 16 Dangerous Jobs Around The World. Youtu.Be. https://youtu.be/OLxbAW9Cid0?si=TnPgG1w-Qv1HI0DM

Eisler, R. T. (2007). The real wealth of nations: Creating caring economics: Creating a caring economics. Berrett-Koehler.

Lelieveld, J., Pozzer, A., Pöschl, U., Fnais, M., Haines, A., & Münzel, T. (2020). Loss of life expectancy from air pollution compared to other risk factors: a worldwide perspective. Cardiovascular Research, 116(11), 1910–1917. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvaa025

Post, H. (2023, April 3). The top 10 most dangerous jobs in the world ranked by fatality rate. TRADESAFE. https://trdsf.com/blogs/news/most-dangerous-jobs-in-the-world

...individual...
Clark, T. R. (2021, June 21). What psychological safety is not. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothyclark/2021/06/21/what-psychological-safety-is-not/

Gallo, A. (2023, February 15). What is psychological safety? Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2023/02/what-is-psychological-safety

Grande, D. (2018, September 24). The neuroscience of feeling safe and connected. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-it-together/201809/the-neuroscience-feeling-safe-and-connected

Hanscom, D. (2024, April 11). Our need to feel safe. Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-another-name-for-pain/202404/our-need-to-feel-safe

Lundquist, M. (2023, October 27). Feeling safe and being safe Aren’t the same thing (and it’s often hard to tell the difference). Tribeca Therapy. https://tribecatherapy.com/blog/feeling-safe-and-being-safe-arent-the-same-thing

Manion, L. (2020, September 21). What safety means as a trauma survivor. NAMI; National Alliance on Mental Illness. https://www.nami.org/support/what-safety-means-as-a-trauma-survivor/

...tell-tale blood...
The Massachusetts Legislative Task Force on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention. (2020). Recognizing physical, emotional and sexual abuse and neglect. Safe Kids Thrive. https://safekidsthrive.org/the-report/introduction/recognizing-abuse-its-effects/

Types and indicators of abuse. (2020, December). SCIE; Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). https://www.scie.org.uk/safeguarding/adults/introduction/types-and-indicators-of-abuse/

Warning signs of abuse - women’s advocates. (2018, October 23). Women’s Advocates. https://www.wadvocates.org/find-help/about-domestic-violence/warning-signs-of-abuse/

Warning signs of abuse. (2020, August 25). The Hotline. https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/domestic-abuse-warning-signs/

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Awry states
...feel safe...
Anderson, L. V. (2016, August 25). U. Chicago sent incoming freshmen a letter decrying safe spaces and trigger warnings. Slate. https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/08/the-university-of-chicago-sent-incoming-freshmen-a-letter-decrying-safe-spaces-and-trigger-warnings.html

Crockett, E. (2016, July 5). Safe spaces, explained. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2016/7/5/11949258/safe-spaces-explained

Fanshawe, S. (2022, February 1). Why identity politics and safe spaces are being dangerously misused. HR Magazine. https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/comment/why-identity-politics-and-safe-spaces-are-being-dangerously-misused/

Ho, K. (2017, January 31). Tackling the Term: What is a Safe Space? Harvard Political Review. https://harvardpolitics.com/what-is-a-safe-space/

Waugh, C. (2016, December 6). Safe Spaces and the politics of vulnerability. University of Leeds, Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. https://gender-studies.leeds.ac.uk/safe-spaces-and-the-politics-of-vulnerability/

...learnings held for opportunistic leverage...
Baldor, L. (2025, April 1). Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/military-academies-dei-hegseth-trump-ba9731f24b4eb4bd9c02b568209f97af

Bush, E. (2025, April 2). ACLU sues National Institutes of Health for ‘ideological purge’ of research projects. NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/aclu-sues-national-institutes-health-ideological-purge-research-projec-rcna199360

Copp, T., Baldor, L., & Vineys, K. (2025, March 7). War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

Erin Gretzinger, Maggie Hicks, Christa Dutton, and Jasper Smith. (2025, April 22). Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/article/tracking-higher-eds-dismantling-of-dei

Gedeon, J. (2025, February 27). Trump administration launches portal for reporting DEI in public schools. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-administration-dei-reporting-website

Noam Chomsky, The University of Arizona. (2012, February 17). Education For Whom and For What? YouTube. https://youtu.be/e_EgdShO1K8?si=CRXpThppDE3kaACL

Stone, W. (2025, January 31). Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies. NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5282274/trump-administration-purges-health-websites

Tait, R. (2025, April 15). How Harvard’s pushback against Trump may embolden more US resistance. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/15/harvard-pushback-trump-administration

...me and mine survive...
Chae, J., Kim, K., Kim, Y., Lim, G., Kim, D., & Kim, H. (2022). Ingroup favoritism overrides fairness when resources are limited. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 4560. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08460-1

Pilat, D., & Krastev, S. In-group bias. The Decision Lab. https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/in-group-bias

Saarinen, A., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Harjunen, V., Keltikangas-Järvinen, L., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., & Ravaja, N. (2021). Neural basis of in-group bias and prejudices: A systematic meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 1214–1227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.10.027

Smith, A. (2024). The wealth of nations. 1828 Press.

Wikipedia contributors. (2025b, March 31). Solipsism. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solipsism&oldid=1283266817

...safety used for control...
Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (2024, December 5). Amnesty International. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/

Gavin, M. (2023, October 23). Beyond Utopia.

Kennedy, L. (2019, October 4). The Avocado War episode, Rotten. Netflix.

Mendelson, N. (2025, February 5). How to avoid being victimized by fearmongering. Hertelier. https://www.hertelier.com/post/how-to-avoid-being-victimized-by-fearmongering

PBS News Hour. (2016, July 4). The history of politicians going way beyond the facts to court fear. PBS News. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-history-of-politicians-going-way-beyond-the-facts-to-court-fear