What is mental resilience? When negative news comes or danger appears, someone starts screaming or breaks down into depression or their brain panics. And somebody else’s brain is concentrating on questions like: Is there anything I can control? Is there any way to mitigate other risks? What alternatives are there? What else can be saved?
In short, some people can switch to defense mode, some people collapse. And most are somewhere in between – closer to a rational response (high psychological resilience) or closer to a breakdown (low psychological resilience).
After Trump’s victory, liberals are holding a low mental resilience contest. Social networks are full of videos of people spectacularly demonstrating how they cry, scream, rip clothes, bang their heads on the steering wheel or the wall. Just as not long ago there was a grandstanding of politically correct views (value signalling), now there is a grandstanding of zero psychological resilience.
It is not hard to see the chances of winning a conflict for a group that cultivates and demonstrates the ability to collapse as a supreme virtue. For it is not just a matter of hysterical students. In the Czech Republic, liberal supercelebrities also demonstrate it when they ostentatiously show their loss of self-control.