There's Never Enough! The Scarcity complex is the idea that there are limited resources and everyone is grabbing at the same piece of the pie. If someone acquires something of value, it's seen as taking away from everybody else because there's only so much to go around. The idea of sharing equally is not conceivable to a scarcity mindset since the belief that there will never be enough produces feelings of anxiety and fear. On the extreme end this involves actions of ‘self-preservation’ such as unlawfully taking from other persons (or institutions) – whether their belongings, money (by way of theft or fraud), or opportunities. The scarcity complex may be rooted in some form of deprivation, either as an individual experience or passed on through ancestral wounding and intergenerational trauma. Though it may be born from a genuine lack, it may remain long after impoverished conditions are left behind.
The Netflix series “100” (The Hundred) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction drama portraying the scarcity complex. A nuclear conflict has decimated civilization. A century later, forced by a lack of oxygen, a spaceship with the only surviving humans dispatches 100 youths back to the Earth to determine its habitability. Once on earth an ongoing fight for survival ensues as the Earth was not uninhabited. Various factions of the human race compete for resources, taking from each other what they need, even lifeblood when it proved to be a needed resource for ongoing survival… Appalling actions are justified by “doing what is necessary to save their people”. This theme is repeated over and over - destroying others in the process of getting what is needed for themselves.
At some point the various factions come together out of necessity, having to hide in a bunker as radioactive levels rise again. Food becomes scarce and unthinkable choices have to be made. By the time it was safe to leave the bunker, the whole Earth had been decimated, except for a lush green valley that somehow escaped the radiation… the race was on again… with everyone going for the ‘Garden of Eden’ and no-one willing to share. In the process all was destroyed.
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The Netflix series “100” (The Hundred) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction drama portraying the scarcity complex. A nuclear conflict has decimated civilization. A century later, forced by a lack of oxygen, a spaceship with the only surviving humans dispatches 100 youths back to the Earth to determine its habitability. Once on earth an ongoing fight for survival ensues as the Earth was not uninhabited. Various factions of the human race compete for resources, taking from each other what they need, even lifeblood when it proved to be a needed resource for ongoing survival… Appalling actions are justified by “doing what is necessary to save their people”. This theme is repeated over and over - destroying others in the process of getting what is needed for themselves.
At some point the various factions come together out of necessity, having to hide in a bunker as radioactive levels rise again. Food becomes scarce and unthinkable choices have to be made. By the time it was safe to leave the bunker, the whole Earth had been decimated, except for a lush green valley that somehow escaped the radiation… the race was on again… with everyone going for the ‘Garden of Eden’ and no-one willing to share. In the process all was destroyed.
Image credit: https://www.vulture.com/
I post I wrote for @jungsouthernafrica
#jung #carljung #jungpsychology #jungianpsychology #depthpsychology
#analyticalpsychology #consciousness #unconscious #archetypes #shadow #symbolism
#complexes #complextheory #childhoodwounds #trauma #Scarcity #scarcitycomplex #The100 #neverenough #fraud #theft #deprivation #capetownliving #capetownlife #southernafrica
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