Question for you out there

[adrienmundi]

Does the positionality of power enable malaise? More specifically, is it only the priveleged who have the capacity for malaise?

Contextually, this came up in conversation with She Who is Resistant, who maintains that the above is absolutely, undeniably true. Me, I'm not so sure.

Comments

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

I'd say no.
I was often the least able to act when I did not feel that I could.

Main Entry: mal·aise
Pronunciation: m&-'lAz, ma-, -'lez
Function: noun
Etymology: French malaise, from Old French, from mal- + aise comfort -- more at EASE
Date: circa 1768
1 : an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness
2 : a vague sense of mental or moral ill-being

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Main Entry: an·o·mie
Variant(s): also an·o·my /'a-n&-mE/
Function: noun
Etymology: French anomie, from Middle French, from Greek anomia lawlessness, from anomos lawless, from a- + nomos law, from nemein to distribute -- more at NIMBLE
Date: 1933
: social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values; also : personal unrest, alienation, and uncertainty that comes from a lack of purpose or ideals