Historically, shame functioned to maintain social order in small tribal groups by psychologically imprisoning wrongdoers through shame rather than physical incarceration, followed by community reintegration, but in modern individualized society people hold shame alone without the communal reintegration process.
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Eve EkmanEvidence Quote
“we kind of psychologically imprison them we make them feel bad by shaming them and then re-including them reinviting them back in right... in our enormously individualized society and context in most of the modern world that shame is something we hold alone and that we're not able to reintegrate in that communal way”
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:14:25 AM
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