The principal violence of mainstream Western culture is administered in the form of oppression, controlling how people live and how they think, keeping one group in power over everyone else.

Systems of oppression exert control by defining cultural values. Which become codified into fashions, philosophies, laws, institutions…. People understand these definitions as reality, construct their identity within and around them.

Defining Reality
White Supremacy Culture
The Toxic Brew
Colonialism
Consumerism/Capitalism
Gender
Patriarchy
Societal Stockholm Syndrome
Superficial Stoicism (Don’t Cry; it’s OK)
“Sex”

(The book contains much more.)