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Based on โWhy humans need fiction, according to neuroscienceโ from Big Think Watch the original video
Your Brainโs Secret Narrator: The Neuroscience of Why We Live by Stories
Imagine a world where your every action, every thought, every emotion, was a disconnected, chaotic event. Thankfully, thatโs not our reality. Instead, we experience a seamless, coherent flow of life, filled with purpose and meaning. But what if this feeling of unity, this sense of a consistent โself,โ is a brilliant illusion, meticulously crafted by an unseen architect within our own minds? According to cutting-edge neuroscience, our consciousness isnโt a passive reception of reality, but an active, ongoing narrative, and at its heart lies a relentless storyteller: the โinterpreter.โ
The Unseen Architect of Consciousness
For decades, scientists have grappled with the mystery of consciousness. Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, a pioneer in cognitive neuroscience, and his colleagues have offered a compelling answer. Their research suggests that a specific region in the left hemisphere of our brain acts as this internal narrator, a system theyโve aptly named the โinterpreter.โ This interpreter doesnโt just record events; it actively weaves them into a continuous, logical story, giving us a comforting sense of coherence and unity.
This implies a profound truth: consciousness isnโt a linear, real-time reflection of whatโs happening around us. Instead, itโs a โconvenient narrative,โ a carefully curated story created by our unconscious brain โfor our viewing pleasure.โ This narrative is a powerful force, constantly seeking explanations for our behaviors, moods, and the world itself, even if those explanations are constructed after the fact.
The Case of the Explaining Brain (and Joe)
The most striking evidence for this internal storyteller comes from studies of split-brain patientsโindividuals who have had the corpus callosum, the bundle of nerves connecting their two brain hemispheres, surgically severed. This radical procedure, sometimes performed to treat severe epilepsy, allows scientists to study the independent functions of each hemisphere in unprecedented detail.
In one classic experiment, researchers could present information exclusively to the right (non-speaking) hemisphere of a patient, letโs call him Joe. When Joe was shown the word โbellโ to his right brain, and the word โmusicโ to his speaking left brain simultaneously, an intriguing scenario unfolded. The right brain, upon seeing โbell,โ would direct Joeโs left hand to point to a picture of a bell. However, when asked why he pointed to the bell, Joeโs speaking left brain (which had only seen โmusicโ) would concoct an entirely plausible, yet entirely fabricated, explanation. โMusic,โ he might say, โthe last time I heard any music was coming from the bells out here, banging away.โ
Whatโs extraordinary here is not just that Joe pointed to the bell, but that his left brain felt an immediate, unshakeable need to explain the action, even when it lacked the true information. It didnโt say, โI donโt know,โ or โMy hand just moved.โ It invented a reason, drawing on available knowledge and current surroundings, to maintain a consistent personal narrative. This vividly demonstrates the interpreterโs tireless drive to make sense of our actions and moods after theyโve occurred, seamlessly integrating them into our personal story.
The Illusions of Linearity: How We Process Information
The interpreterโs work extends beyond explaining our actions; it also shapes our very perception of reality. We often feel our subjective experiences unfolding in a perfectly linear fashion, where event B neatly follows A, and C follows B. However, neurological evidence suggests that our conscious narrative might not be so straightforward.
Consider how we process speech. Youโre likely not aware of individual syllables or words as distinct, isolated units. Your brain โchunksโ information. For example, the word โmouseโ could refer to a rodent or a computer peripheral. But if I say, โThe mouse pad was beside the computer,โ your unconscious mind instantly โchunksโ the context, delivering the meaning of โmouseโ as a computer accessory directly to your conscious awareness, without you having to consciously deliberate between meanings.
This โchunkingโ process is a testament to the unconscious mindโs incredible analytical power. It samples vast amounts of information, processes it, and then delivers a polished, coherent narrative of the world to our conscious mind. The interpreter is constantly striving to keep this story coherent, even when the underlying actions and perceptions originate from unconscious processes.
The Storytelling Animal: Why Weโre All Different
This fundamental drive to create and maintain a coherent story is why humans are often called โstorytelling animals.โ Our internal narrative system is constantly at work, but the stories it generates are profoundly unique to each individual. While we might all start with the same basic โinterpreterโ mechanism, our personal experiences, temperaments, environmental influences, and even our genetic predispositions color everything.
Your memories, your past interactions, your unique emotional responsesโall these factors shape the raw material the interpreter works with. Consequently, the โstorylineโ your brain constructs about your life, your identity, and your place in the world will be distinct from anyone elseโs. This explains why two people can experience the exact same event but walk away with vastly different interpretations and memories of what happened. Our personal narratives are not just reflections of reality; they are reality, as far as our conscious minds are concerned.
The Power of Fiction: Rehearsing for Reality
If our brains are hardwired to construct elaborate narratives about our lives, it stands to reason that we would also be drawn to external storiesโto fiction. The profound human love for novels, films, plays, and even gossip might stem from this very neurological imperative.
Why do we find solace, excitement, and even profound insight in fictional worlds? One compelling theory is that fiction serves as a mental rehearsal space. By immersing ourselves in the lives and dilemmas of fictional characters, we vicariously experience a vast range of scenariosโjoy, loss, betrayal, triumph, danger, difficult choices. We see how characters react, how their decisions play out, and what the consequences are.
In a sense, we โlive through that movieโ ourselves. This imaginative engagement could be preparing us for the unexpected twists and turns of our own lives. When confronted with a real-world challenge, our brains might draw on these fictional experiences, having already โthought about them in our fantasy world.โ This mental simulation allows us to explore possibilities, develop empathy, and broaden our understanding of human nature, all without facing real-world risks.
Beyond preparation, fiction undeniably enriches our experience of being human. It allows us to transcend the boundaries of our own lives, to connect with universal themes, and to find meaning in shared human struggles and triumphs. The interpreter, tirelessly spinning our personal tales, finds a kindred spirit in the grand narratives of fiction, making our conscious existence not just coherent, but infinitely richer.
In essence, our brains are not just processing units; they are narrative engines. From the mundane explanations of daily actions to the profound impact of epic sagas, stories are fundamental to who we are, how we perceive reality, and how we navigate the complex journey of life. The next time you get lost in a good book or a captivating film, remember: your brain isnโt just seeking entertainment; itโs engaging in one of its most fundamental and essential activities.
Based on โWhat Autocrats Have in Common With Abusers | โThe Opinionsโ Podcastโ from New York Times Podcasts Watch the original video
The Autocratโs Playbook: How Totalitarian Control Mirrors Domestic Abuse
The chilling parallels between the tactics of autocratic regimes and the insidious patterns of domestic abuse are often overlooked, yet they offer profound insights into the psychological mechanisms of control. This unsettling connection forms the core of a striking conversation between Masha Gessen, an opinion columnist renowned for writing about autocracy, and Rachel Louise Snyder, a contributing writer who frequently covers domestic violence. Their discussion reveals how the experiences of individuals under totalitarian rule and victims of intimate partner violence are eerily similar, providing a powerful lens through which to understand coercive power.
Masha Gessen, who spent their childhood in Russia and reported from the country during Vladimir Putinโs ascent, has dedicated much of their professional life to understanding autocrats and aspiring autocrats. Several years ago, Gessen found themselves listening to a psychologistโs lecture on domestic violence, a subject seemingly unrelated to their own work. Yet, as the psychologist described how abusers control their victims, Gessen was struck by the profound overlap with the experiences of people living under autocratic governments. This was no mere coincidence; as Rachel Louise Snyder notes, the study of trauma in totalitarian subjects has, in fact, informed the understanding of trauma in victims of domestic violence.
Rachel Louise Snyderโs journey into her expertise began unexpectedly. After years as a โbaby journalistโ covering gender-based violence in over 60 countries, she admits to a youthful naivete that prevented her from seeing domestic violence as โher story.โ It wasnโt until 2009, back in America, that a chance encounter with a friendโs sister, who worked for a domestic violence agency, opened her eyes. This agency didnโt just run shelters; it actively researched the highest-risk indicators of domestic violence homicide to prevent it. Snyder was stunned: โThis is a crime that happens behind closed doors. This is a crime that I as a journalist with all of the privilegesโฆ was blind to it.โ Her career since has been an attempt to pull off her own blinders and bring this critical issue into public discourse.
The Mechanisms of Control: A Shared Playbook
Both autocrats and abusers employ a systematic dismantling of an individualโs autonomy, starting subtly and escalating over time. Gessen, reflecting on life in the Soviet Union, recalls a state that controlled virtually every aspect of existence: where one could live, work, or travel, even internally. Snyder immediately recognized the parallel in domestic abuse: โAbusers will start slowly. Theyโll talk about clothing. Theyโll talk about makeup. Theyโll say things like, โI see the way men look at you when you wear that short skirt and so I donโt think you should wear that.โโ This โprotectionismโ slowly chips away at a victimโs attachments to meaningful things and people, eventually extending to control over money, work, and interactions with friends or family.
Crucially, the threat of violence often proves more effective and ubiquitous than actual physical violence. Gessen connects this to the Trump administration, noting the โspectacle of violenceโ from ICE raids to political rhetoric, which makes the threat of violence feel โmuch more palpable to many more people.โ Snyder adds that this language often includes victim-blaming and gaslightingโthe infamous โlook what you made me do.โ This insidious tactic, historically central to how domestic violence was understood, absolves the abuser of responsibility, placing the burden on the victim to โact a certain way, be obedient.โ
The Illusion of a โSpecial Bondโ: Intermittent Rewards and Unrealistic Demands
Another striking similarity lies in the creation of a โspecial relationshipโ and the use of intermittent rewards. An abuser convinces their victim that no one else can understand their unique bond, while an autocratic leader fosters a similar illusion of a singular connection with the people. Snyder points out that this tactic, also common in human trafficking, makes relationships โcomplicatedโ as victims receive unpredictable โgiftsโโattention, time, or even basic provisionsโfollowed by violent episodes. This cycle destabilizes the relationship, forcing the victim into a state of dependency and often, paradoxically, gratitude.
In autocratic societies, Gessen explains, this manifests through unrealistic goals and unpredictable penalties. In the Soviet Union, impossible labor quotas meant that most people couldnโt meet expectations. When a rare worker did, it often involved an entire factory falsifying records. This system ensured that individuals were constantly at the mercy of the regimeโs representatives. If they were paid, they were grateful; if they werenโt reported for failing a quota, they were grateful. But the threat of punishment was ever-present, creating a perpetual state of uncertainty.
Living on Eggshells: Unpredictability and Isolation
This leads directly to the core experience of unpredictability and instability. In a totalitarian society, one is always โoutside the lawโ in some way, always punishable. Snyder describes this as โliving on eggshells,โ a clichรฉ often used by domestic violence victims. This constant state degrades oneโs sense of humanity, leading to isolation and self-monitoring. โThe abuser has taken up residence inside your own mind,โ she explains, dictating behavior even in the abuserโs absence. The โgoalposts are movedโโdinner at 6 becomes a failure because chicken was served instead of steakโleaving the victim in a perpetual state of confusion and anxiety.
Isolation is a foundational tool for both forms of control. Gessen recalls growing up behind the Iron Curtain, where foreign books and radio were illegal, fostering a belief that no alternative to Soviet life existed. Many genuinely believed they lived in the โbest country on earth.โ Snyder notes that isolation is one of the first things seen in domestic violence situations, cutting victims off from friends and family. These โpassive hostagesโ are convinced that no external system can be as powerful as their abuser, effectively living in a state akin to solitary confinement.
Collective Hostage-Taking and Societal Blame
The concept of โcollective hostage-taking,โ coined by Russian sociologist Yuri Levada, further illuminates these parallels. Levada described a mechanism of โhorizontal enforcementโ in which if someone was arrested for anti-Soviet activity, their family, friends, and co-workers might also be punished for not being โalert enough.โ The threat of bringing violence or punishment onto loved ones was a powerful tool for maintaining compliance. This resonates deeply with women in abusive relationships who worry about bringing violence onto their children or other family members.
Snyder highlights a particularly disturbing parallel: the blaming of victims for violence against their children. An abuser might threaten to harm children if a victim doesnโt comply, and if the children are indeed harmed, the mother is often charged with โfailure to protect.โ Gessen sees a societal parallel in totalitarian countries: if someone was jailed, they were deemed โirresponsibleโ for bringing punishment onto co-workers or for neglecting their children. โHow could this mother get herself arrested, doesnโt she care about her children?โ Gessen recalls hearing, even about figures now considered heroes.
Gessen argues that a milder form of collective hostage-taking has been witnessed in the United States, citing university presidents or law firm heads who claim to be protecting jobs or funding while compromising other values like academic freedom. While acknowledging some self-serving motives, Gessen suggests these individuals may genuinely feel an โenormous threat to being able to stay responsible for these peopleโs livelihood.โ
The Pervasive Dread and the Challenge of Escape
Ultimately, the psychological effect is paramount: a โlow-level dread.โ Distinct from high anxiety, this state allows individuals to functionโgo to work, shop for groceries, prepare mealsโbut leaves no room for creativity, meaningful social connections, or, most importantly, planning for the future. The abuser or regime โhas taken up residence in their brain.โ
This profound psychological impact underlies the common, often insensitive, question posed to domestic violence victims: โWhy didnโt they just leave?โ Snyder finds it difficult to explain the bureaucratic, financial, and manipulative hurdles to judges or police. Gessen sees a direct parallel in totalitarian societies: โImagine what itโs like to leave a countryโฆ the bureaucratic hurdles, the logistics of it, the expense of it.โ When isolated and unable to plan for the future, imagining an alternative life elsewhere becomes almost impossible, akin to learning a new language. As Gessen recounts, when their family planned to immigrate, a friend joked, โWhat evidence do we have of the existence of the West?โโhighlighting the complete absence of material evidence or personal connection to an outside world.
Bringing It Home: The Trump Administration and the Normalization of Abuse
The conversation inevitably turns to the Trump administration, where autocratic ambition and gender-based violence have converged with alarming frequency. Gessen points to the president himself, accused of sexual violence and found liable in one case, as well as other high-profile figures like Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. facing similar accusations. The Kavanaugh hearings, Gessen asserts, offered the โfirst real illustration of how this movement that Donald Trump leads treats gender-based violence.โ
While acknowledging that gender-based violence is not exclusive to the right, Gessen emphasizes a โconcentrationโ and โshamelessnessโ specific to this administration. Snyder agrees, noting โalmost a pride about it.โ This normalization, she argues, gives โlicense to all kinds of bad actors in normal society.โ Thereโs evidence of rising domestic violence homicides, now closer to five women per day in the U.S. This environment normalizes emotional abuse and coercive controlโthe act of coercing someone into actions they wouldnโt otherwise take, often through threats or destabilizing their reality. Snyder cites the belittling of Zelensky in the Oval Office by JD Vance as an example of this coercive control.
Furthermore, Snyder highlights a โglorification of male violenceโ in the U.S., contrasting Senator John McCainโs identity built around his experience as a victim of war violence with Senator Joni Ernst, who was years into her term before revealing her own experiences as a domestic violence and sexual assault survivor. Male violence is often seen as something not to be ashamed of, while domestic violence carries a deep shame and public failure to acknowledge its victims. Gessen sees this โviolent posturingโ in figures like JD Vance or Pete Hegseth as serving the purpose of totalitarian societies, which are โmobilized societiesโฆ united by having enemies and by being ready to act violently together,โ as seen in Russiaโs mobilization against Ukraine.
A Path Forward: Naming, Connecting, Resisting
Despite the gravity of their analysis, Gessen and Snyder offer a โsomewhat hopeful conclusion.โ Snyder admits being naturally unpositive, but believes conversations like theirs are vital. While leaders may normalize violence, โwe can actually normalize conversations around caring and community outreach.โ She notes that in thousands of interviews, domestic violence victims invariably say, โIโm not your typical victim.โ This highlights the need to talk openly about coercive control, financial control, and emotional control, allowing people to recognize their own victimization.
Snyder quotes Judith Herman, a seminal thinker on trauma: โTo speak about experiences in sexual or domestic life is to invite public humiliation, to invite ridicule and disbelief. The silence of women gives license to every form of sexual and domestic exploitation.โ For Snyder, this means โthe recipe is very simple. We have to talk about it and we have to allow each other the space to recognize what it is.โ Crucially, both agree that โhaving connections outside of the abusive situation, having community support, having meaningful social connections is essential for somebody being able to get out from under the abuse.โ
Gessen points to Minneapolis as a powerful example of successful resistance against the Trump administrationโs actions. During ICE raids, the city named what was happening as an โoccupation,โ fostering a collective effort. Key to this success were the well-established mutual aid networks that had formed since COVID and the George Floyd protests. These networks, built on โbonds of trust,โ enabled people to work together, help one another, and use a shared language for action.
Snyder draws a parallel to Gloria Steinemโs โconsciousness-raisingโ talks of the 70s and 80s, emphasizing the need to revive such community-based awareness. The recipe, then, is clear: โTalk to one another. Call things by their proper namesโฆ And help one another.โ By understanding the shared playbook of autocrats and abusers, by recognizing the insidious mechanisms of control, and by fostering open conversation and strong community bonds, individuals can resist the normalization of violence and reclaim their collective power.
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๋๋ ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ํ๋๊ฐ: ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํ์ค์ ์ฎ๋ โํด์์โ์ ๋น๋ฐ
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ธ์์ ์๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๊ฐ๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์์ ์ฃผ๋ณ์์ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ์ผ๋ค์ ๋จ์ํ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋๊ฐ ๋์์์ด ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๊ณ ํธ์งํ์ฌ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ด๋ โ์ด์ผ๊ธฐโ์ ๊ฐ๊น๋ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ๊ด์ ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ํ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ํ๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ์ฑ๋๋์ง์ ๋ํ ์๋ก์ด ํต์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊พผ, โํด์์โ(Interpreter)
์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋๋ ํ๋์ด ์ผ์ด๋ ํ, ๊ทธ ํ๋์ ํ๋์ ์ผ๊ด๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํต์ผ๋๊ณ ์ดํดํ ์ ์๋ ์กด์ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋ผ๊ฒ ํ๋ ์์ โ๋ด๋ ์ดํฐโ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ด๋ ์ดํฐ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋์ ์ข๋ฐ๊ตฌ(left hemisphere)์ ์์นํ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ์๋ค์ ์ด๋ฅผ โํด์์(interpreter)โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ์ด ํด์์๋ ๋ฌด์์์ ์ธ ๋๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ โ๊ด๋์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์โ์ ์ํด ์ฃผ๋ณ์์ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ์ผ๋ค์ ํธ๋ฆฌํ ์์ฌ(narrative)๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ด๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํ์ ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฌํ ํด์์์ ์กด์ฌ๋ ๋ ธ๋ฒจ์ ์์์์ธ ๋ง์ดํด ๊ฐ์๋๊ฐ(Michael Gazzaniga) ๋ฐ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ช ํ โ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์(split-brain patient)โ ์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ทน๋ช ํ๊ฒ ๋๋ฌ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์๋๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ฌ๋ ๋๋(corpus callosum)์ด ์ ๋จ๋์ด ์ข๋์ ์ฐ๋๊ฐ ๋จ์ ๋ ํ์๋ค์ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๊ตฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ๋ฐํ๋์ต๋๋ค.
ํ ์คํ์์, ์ฐ๊ตฌํ์ ํ์์ ๋น์ธ์ด์ ์ฐ๋(non-speaking right hemisphere)์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋์ง๊ณ , ๊ทธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํ์์ ์ผ์์ด ํน์ ํ๋์ ํ๋๋ก ์ง์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ํ์์๊ฒ โ์ข (bell)โ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ฐ๋๋ก ๋ณด๊ฒ ํ๊ณ , โ์์ (music)โ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ์ธ์ด์ ์ข๋๋ก ๋ณด๊ฒ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์์๊ฒ ์์ ์ด ๋ณธ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌํค๋๋ก ์์ฒญํ์, ํ์๋ ์ผ์์ผ๋ก โ์ข โ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ์ผฐ์ต๋๋ค.
์ด๋ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ์ ํ์์๊ฒ โ์ ์ข ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ์ผฐ๋์?โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฌผ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋๊ฒ๋ ํ์์ ์ธ์ด์ ์ข๋๋ ์ฆ์ ๊ทธ๋ด๋ฏํ ์ค๋ช ์ ์ง์ด๋์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ ์กฐ(Joe)๋ โ์์ ์ด์? ๋ช ๋ถ ์ ์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ข ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ ธ์ด์. ์ฟต์ฟต ์ธ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋ฆฌ์. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ฐ์ ์๋ ์ข ๋๋ฌธ์ด์์โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ตํ์ต๋๋ค.
์ด ์ฌ๋ก๊ฐ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ํต์ฌ์, ์กฐ์ ์ข๋๋ โ์ข โ์ ๊ฐ๋ฆฌํจ ํ๋์ ์ค์ ์์ธ(์ฐ๋์ ์ ์๋ โ์ข โ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ)์ ์์ง ๋ชปํ์์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ , ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋ค(์: ์์ ์ ์ฐ์์ํค๋ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋ค)์ด ๋ ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ์์ ์ ๋ํ๋ผ ๋์กฐ์ฐจ โ๋ฐ์์ ๋ค๋ฆฐ ์ข ์๋ฆฌโ๋ผ๋ ๊ทธ๋ด๋ฏํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฆ์์์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฆ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ข๋๋ ํ๋์ด๋ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ ์ดํ์, ํญ์ ๊ทธ์ ๋ํ ์ค๋ช ์ ์ฐพ์๋ด๊ณ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๋ ค๋ ํน๋ณํ ์์คํ ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
์์์ โํธ๋ฆฌํ ๋ด๋ฌํฐ๋ธโ๋ค
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์ธ์์์ ์ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ํผ์ณ์ง๋ค๊ณ ๋๋๋๋ค. A ๋ค์์ B๊ฐ ์ค๊ณ , B ๋ค์์ C๊ฐ ์ค๋ ์์ด์ฃ . ํ์ง๋ง ์ค์ ๋ก๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์์ ์ธ ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ์ ํ์ ์ด์ง ์์ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค.
์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ง์ ๋ค์ ๋, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ ๋จ์๋ ๋จ์ด ๋จ์๋ก ์์ํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌด์์์ ์ธ ๋๋ ์ฃผ๋ณ์์ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ํ๋งํ์ฌ ๋ถ์ํ ๋ค์, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ ๊น๋ํ ์์ฌ ํํ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์์ ์ ๋ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
โ์ฅ(mouse)โ๋ผ๋ ๋จ์ด๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํด๋ด ์๋ค. โ์ฅโ๋ ์ค์น๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์๋ฏธํ ์๋ ์๊ณ , ์ปดํจํฐ์ ๋ง์ฐ์ค ํจ๋๋ฅผ ์๋ฏธํ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ง์ฝ ์ ๊ฐ โ๋ง์ฐ์ค ํจ๋๋ ์ปดํจํฐ ์์ ์์๋ค(The mouse pad was beside the computer)โ๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋ โ๋ง์ฐ์คโ๋ ์ปดํจํฐ ๋ง์ฐ์ค ํจ๋๋ก๋ง ์ดํด๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฌด์์์ ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์ ํตํด โ๋ง์ฐ์คโ์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ โ๋ฉ์ด๋ฆฌ(chunking)โ๋ก ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์์์ ์ ๋ฌํ์ฌ ํผ๋ ์์ด ์ดํดํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
์ด์ฒ๋ผ ์์์ ์ฃผ๋ณ์์ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ์ผ์ ์ ํ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฅด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ๋ฌด์์์ ์ธ ๋๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ดํด๋ฅผ ๋๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ด๋ โํธ๋ฆฌํ ๋ด๋ฌํฐ๋ธโ์ธ ์ ์ ๋๋ค.
์ธ๊ฐ์ โ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ ๋๋ฌผโ์ด๋ค
์ด๋ค ์ด๋ค์ ์ธ๊ฐ์ โ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๋ ๋๋ฌผ(storytelling animal)โ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ ์์คํ ์ด ๋์์์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ผ๊ด์ฑ ์๊ฒ ์ ์งํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํ๋ ์ค ์ผ๋ถ๋ ์ฒ์์๋ ์์์ ์ธ ์ธ์ง ๋ฐ์ ์๋ ํ๋ก์ธ์๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋์ฌ ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๋๋ ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฎ์ด ํ๋์ coherent(์ผ๊ด๋) ์คํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฌํ ํน์ฑ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด์ ์ค ํ๋์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ์ค๋ช ํ๋ ค๋ ๋์๋ ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ ๋์ผํ โํด์์โ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ํ ์ง๋ผ๋, ๊ฐ์์ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฒฝํ, ๊ธฐ์ง์ ์ฐจ์ด ๋ฑ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ํด์์๋ ๊ทธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ ๋๋ค. ์ฆ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ ํนํ โ์ธ์ ์คํ ๋ฆฌโ๋ ๋ ์ ํด์์๊ฐ ๋์์์ด ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ธ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
ํ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ๋๋ผ์ด ํ: ์ถ์ ํ์๋กญ๊ฒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋น์ํค๋ค
๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ธ๊ฐ์ ์ ํญ์ ํ๊ตฌ(fiction)๋ฅผ ์ข์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๊น์? ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ์ ๊ด์ ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ๊ตฌ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ถ์์ ๊ฒช์ ์ ์๋ ์์์น ๋ชปํ ์ผ๋ค์ ๋๋นํ๋๋ก ์ค๋น์์ผ์ฃผ๋ ์ญํ ์ ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์์ ์ธ๊ณ ์์์ ๋ค์ํ ์ํฉ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์์ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ค์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๋ํ๋์ง ์ง์ผ๋ด ๋๋ค. ๋ง์น ์ํ ์์์ ์ด์๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค ์ค์ ์ถ์์ ๋น์ทํ ์ํฉ์ ์ง๋ฉดํ์ ๋, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ทธ โ์ํโ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์ด๋ณธ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๋๋์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ ์ ๋์ฒํ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
ํ๊ตฌ๋ ๋จ์ํ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์์ ์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋๊ฐ ํ์ค์ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ์์ธกํ๋ฉฐ ๋์ฒํ๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ํ๋ จ์ํค๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๋๊ตฌ์ธ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ ์์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค์ ์ถ์์ ๊ฒฝํํ ์ ์๋ ๋ณต์กํ ๊ฐ์ , ๋๋์ ๋๋ ๋ง, ์ฌํ์ ์ํธ์์ฉ ๋ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒฝํํ๊ฒ ํ์ฌ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ ์ ์ ์งํ์ ๋ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๋์ฑ ํ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒฝํ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ญ๋๋ค.
๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ ์ผ๋ก, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋๋ ๋จ์ํ ์ ๋ณด ์ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ๋์์์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์ฌํด์ํ๋ ์ ๊ตํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊พผ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด โํด์์โ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์์ ํ์ค์ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํ๋์ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ์ง์ด ํ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋๋นํ๋๋ก ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ธ๊ฐ์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋จ์ํ ์ค๋ฝ์ ๋์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์กด์ฌ์ ์ถ์ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ํ์๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ผ๋ถ์ธ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค.
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M. ๊ตฌ์ผ์ ๋ฌ์์์์ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ ์ ๋ณด๋ด๊ณ ์ฑ์ธ์ด ๋์ด ๋ธ๋ผ๋๋ฏธ๋ฅด ํธํด์ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ทจ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ์ ๋ถ ์๋์ ์ถ์ ์ง์ ๊ฒฝํํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์ ์์ง์์ ๋ถ์ํ๋ฉฐ ๋ ์ฌ์ ๋ฐ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์งํฅํ๋ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋ค์ ๋ํด ๊พธ์คํ ๊ธ์ ์ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์๋ ์ ์ฐ์ฐํ ๋ค์๋ ์ฌ๋ฆฌํ์์ ๊ฐ์ฐ์์ ๊น์ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ โ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ(Domestic Violence)โ์ด์์ง๋ง, ๊ฐํด์๊ฐ ํผํด์๋ฅผ ํต์ ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๋ ์ฌ ์ ๋ถ ์๋์์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๊ฒช๋ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ๋๋๋๋ก ์ ์ฌํ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ดํ ์ด ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊น์ด ํ๊ณ ๋ค๋ฉด์, ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ์ฌ์ฑ์ด ๋จ์ํ ์ฐ์ฐ์ด ์๋๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ์ฒด์ ํผํด์๋ค์ ํธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ง ์ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ํผํด์ ํธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ง ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ์ค์ํ ํต์ฐฐ์ ์ ๊ณตํ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ๋ถ์ผ๋ ๋ฐ์ ํ๊ฒ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฌํ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊น์ด ํ์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด M. ๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์ค๋ ์น๊ตฌ์ด์ ๋๋ฃ์ธ ๋ ์ด์ฒผ ๋ฃจ์ด์ฆ ์ค๋์ด๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์์ฆ ์คํผ๋์ธ ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์๊ฐ์ธ ๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํญ๋ ฅ(Gender-Based Violence)๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ๋ถ์ผ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋ ์ฌ์ฃผ์ ์ฌ์ด์ ์ฐ๊ด์ฑ์ ๊ตฌ์ผ์ด ์ดํดํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋ง์ ๋์์ ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ด ์ด ๋ถ์ผ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฒ ๋ ๊ณ๊ธฐ ๋ํ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด๋ณด ๊ธฐ์ ์์ , ๋ฐ๋๊ณผ ์บ๋ณด๋์ ๋ฑ ํด์ธ์์ ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ผ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ ๊ฒฐํผ, ์ธ์ ๋งค๋งค ๋ฑ ์ด๋์ด ํ์ค์ ์ทจ์ฌํ๋ฉด์๋ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ โ๋ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์๋๋คโ๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์ธ๋ฉดํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ 2009๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก ๋์์ ์น๊ตฌ์ ์ฌ๋์(์์)์ ๋ง๋๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ์์ผ๋ ์์ ํ ๋ฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์์์ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ๊ธฐ๊ด์์ ์ผํ๋๋ฐ, ๋จ์ํ ์ผํฐ ์ด์์ ๋์ด โ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ์ดํด(Domestic Violence Homicide)์ ์ต๊ณ ์ํ ์งํ๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ์ฌ ์ด๋ฅผ ์๋ฐฉํ๋คโ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ํฐ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ํน๊ถ์ธต ๋ฐฑ์ธ ๊ธฐ์๋ก์ ์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋์๋ค๋๋ฉฐ ๊ต์ก๊น์ง ๋ฐ์์์๋, โ๋ซํ ๋ฌธ ๋ค์์ ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๋ฒ์ฃโ์ธ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํด์๋ ์์ ํ ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ์ด์๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ๊นจ๋ฌ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ดํ ๊ทธ๋ ์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ์์ ์ โ๋งน๋ชฉ์ ๊ฑท์ด๋ด๋โ ์๋์๊ณ , โ์ด๊ฒ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ๊ณ ์ฐ๊ตฌํด์ผ ํ ๋ฌธ์ โ๋ผ๋ ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค.
ํต์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ : ์ ์ฌํ ํจํด, ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ค์ผ์ผ
๊ตฌ์ผ๊ณผ ์ค๋์ด๋๋ ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ๋์ ์ ์ฌ์ฑ์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ํต์ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ ํตํด ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค.
์ถ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฉด์ ์ฅ์ฃ๋ ํต์
M. ๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์๋ จ์์ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ฉฐ ์ถ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์ด ๊ตญ๊ฐ์ ์ํด ํต์ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ต์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ ๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ค ๋์์, ์ด๋ค ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์, ์ด๋ค ์ํํธ์ ์ด์ง, ๋ํ ์กธ์ ํ ์ด๋์ ์ผํ ์ง, ์ฌ์ง์ด ๊ตญ๋ด ์ฌํ์กฐ์ฐจ ํ์ฉํ ์ง ๋ง์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํต์ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์์๋ ์ ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋ํ๋๋ค๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฐํด์๋ค์ ์ฒ์ฒํ ํต์ ๋ฅผ ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฒ์์๋ ์ท์ฐจ๋ฆผ์ด๋ ํ์ฅ์ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฉฐ โ์งง์ ์น๋ง๋ฅผ ์ ์ผ๋ฉด ๋จ์๋ค์ด ๋๋ฅผ ์ณ๋ค๋ด์ ์ ์ง ์์์ผ๋ฉด ์ข๊ฒ ์ดโ์ ๊ฐ์ด โ๋ณดํธโ๋ผ๋ ๋ช ๋ชฉ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ทผํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ์ฐจ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์ฌ๋์ด๋ ์ฌ๋ฌผ๊ณผ์ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์๋จน๊ณ , ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์๋ ๋, ์ง์ , ์น๊ตฌ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ๊ณผ์ ๊ต๋ฅ๊น์ง ํต์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์ ํญ๋ ฅ๋ณด๋ค โํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ํโ์ด ๋ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ง์ฐํ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค.
๊ตฌ์ผ์ ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ ํ์์ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉ๋๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์คํํฐํด(ICE์ ๊ฐ์ ์ด์ฃผ, ์ ์น์ ํญ๋ ฅ)์ด ์ฌํ๋ฅผ โํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ํโ์ด ํจ์ฌ ๋ ํผ๋ถ๋ก ๋๊ปด์ง๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค์๋ค๊ณ ์ง์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ฉฐ, ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์ ์ธ์ด๊ฐ ๋ดํฌํ๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ํ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ โํผํด์ ๋น๋(Victim Blaming)โ๊ณผ โ๊ฐ์ค๋ผ์ดํ (Gaslighting)โ์ ์ ํ์ ์ธ ์์๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. โ๋ค๊ฐ ๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์์์(Look what you made me do)โ๋ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ํ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ ์ค๋ซ๋์ ์ง๋ฐฐ์ ์ด์๋ ๊ด์ , ์ฆ ํผํด์๊ฐ ์์ดํ๋ค๋ ์์ ๋ ผ๋ฆฌ์ ์ ํํ ์ผ์นํฉ๋๋ค.
โํน๋ณํ ๊ด๊ณโ๋ผ๋ ํ์๊ณผ ๊ฐํ์ ๋ณด์
๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ๊ฐํด์๋ ํผํด์์๊ฒ ์์ ๋ค ์ฌ์ด์ โํน๋ณํ ์ฌ๋์ ์ ๋โ๋ฅผ ์๋ฌด๋ ์ดํดํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ค๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ ์ฌ ์ง๋์๋ค๋ ์ด์ ์ ์ฌํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๋์ค์ ์กฐ์ข ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ด๊ณ๊ฐ โ๊ฐํ์ ๋ณด์(Intermittent Rewards)โ์ ํตํด ๋ณต์กํด์ง๋ค๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ํผํด์๋ค์ ์ ๋ฌผ, ๊ด์ฌ, ์๊ฐ์ ์ป๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ด ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ํผ์๋๊ฐ ์ด์ด์ง๋ฉฐ ๋ถ์์ ํ ์ํ์ด ๋ฐ๋ณต๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด์๋ ํผํด์๋ฅผ ์์กด์ ์ด๊ณ ์ข ์ข โ๊ฐ์ฌํ๋โ ์ํ๋ก ๋ง๋ญ๋๋ค. ์์์ด๋ ์๋ฉด์ ๋ฐํํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ํํ ํต์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋๋ค.
๊ตฌ์ผ์ ๋ ์ฌ ์ฌํ์์๋ ์ด์ ์ ์ฌํ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ด ์๋ํ๋ค๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ์ง๋์๋ค์ ๋นํ์ค์ ์ธ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ์๋ จ์๋ ํฐ๋ฌด๋์๋ ๋ ธ๋ ํ ๋น๋(Labor Quotas)์ด ์์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ์ฌ๋์ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ง ๋ชปํ์ ๋ ์ฒ๋ฒ๋ฐ์์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์ฉ์๋ฐ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ณด์๋ฐ์์ง ์์ธกํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํญ์ ์ ๊ถ์ ์ฒ๋ถ์ ๋งก๊ฒจ์ ธ ์์๊ณ , ๋ณด์์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ณ , ์ฒ๋ฒ๋ฐ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด ์๋ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์์ธก ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ(Unpredictability)๊ณผ ๋ถ์์ ์ฑ(Instability)์ ํต์ฌ ์์๋ก ํ์ฌ, ๊ตญ๋ฏผ๋ค์ ํญ์ ๋ฒ์ ํ ๋๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ์ ๋์ด ์ธ์ ๋ ์ฒ๋ฒ๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋ ์ํ๋ก ๋ง๋ญ๋๋ค.
๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๊ณผ โ์ง๋จ ์ธ์ง๊ทนโ: ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋ฐ
๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ โ์ฒ ์ ์ฅ๋ง(Iron Curtain)โ ๋ค์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ํด์ธ ์์ ์ ์ฝ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ธ๊ตญ ๋ผ๋์ค๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ๋ฒ์ด์๋ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๋น์์๋ ์๋ จ์ ์ถ ์ธ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋์์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ง์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์๋ จ์ด ์ง๊ตฌ์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ๋๋ผ๋ผ๊ณ ์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฏฟ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ์ํฉ์์๋ โ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ(Isolation)โ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋ํ๋๋ ํ์ ์ค ํ๋๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ํผํด์๋ค์ ์น๊ตฌ, ๊ฐ์กฑ์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฐํด์๋ ํผํด์์ ๋ง์์ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ๋ฉฐ, ํผํด์๋ ๊ฐํด์๋ณด๋ค ์์ ์ ๋์ธ ์ ์๋ ์ด๋ค ์์คํ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ์ง ์๋ค๊ณ ํ์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ์ด๋ฅผ โ๋ ๋ฐฉ ๊ฐ๊ธ(Solitary Confinement)โ ์ํ์ ์ ์ฌํ๋ค๊ณ ํํํ์ง๋ง, ์ข ์ข โ๋ ๋ฐฉโ์ด ์๋๋ผ๋ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํผํด์๋ค์ โ์๋์ ์ธ์ง(Passive Hostages)โ์ฒ๋ผ ์ด์๊ฐ๋ฉฐ, ์ธ๋ถ ์ธ๊ณ์ ๋ํ ์ธ์์ด ์ ์ฐจ ๋ฌด๋์ง๋๋ค.
๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ โ์ธ์งโ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ์ด ๋ฌ์์ ์ฌํํ์ ์ ๋ฆฌ ๋ ๋ฐ๋ค(Yuri Levada)๊ฐ ๊ณ ์ํ โ์ง๋จ ์ธ์ง๊ทน(Collective Hostage Taking)โ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฉ์ด์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋๋ค๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ โ์ํ์ ๊ฐ์ ์งํ(Horizontal Enforcement)โ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ผ๋ก, ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ๋ฐ์ ํ๋์ผ๋ก ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ์ฒดํฌ๋๋ฉด ๊ทธ์ ์ด์ธ๋ ธ๋ ๊ฐ์กฑ, ๋๋ฃ ๋ชจ๋๊ฐ โ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๊ฒฝ๊ณํ์ง ์์๋คโ๋ ์ด์ ๋ก ์ฒ๋ฒ๋ฐ์ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์ฒ๋ฒ์ด๋ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์ฌ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ํ์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ํต์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ถฉ๋ถํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ํผํด์๋ค์ด ์๋ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฌ๋ํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฏธ์น ๊น ๊ฑฑ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์ ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋ ์ฌ ์ฌํ์ ๋น๋ ์์์๋ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์์๋ โ๋ณดํธ ์คํจ(Failure to Protect)โ ํ์๋ก ํผํด์๊ฐ ๋น๋๋ฐ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ๋ ์ฌ ์ฌํ์์๋ โ๋ฐ์ฒด์ ์ธ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ฃ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ฒ๋ฒ์ ๊ฐ์ ธ์์ผ๋ ๋ฌด์ฑ ์ํ๋คโ๊ฑฐ๋ โ์ด๋จธ๋๊ฐ ์์ด๋ค์ ์๊ฐ์ง ์๊ณ ์ฒดํฌ๋นํ๋คโ๋ ์์ ์ฌํ์ ์ดํด๊ฐ ๋ง์ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ โ์ง๋จ ์ธ์ง๊ทนโ์ ์จํํ ํํ๋ฅผ ํ์ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ด์ฅ์ด๋ ๋กํ ๋ํ๋ค์ด โ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ผ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณดํธํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์โ๋ผ๋ ๋ช ๋ชฉ์ผ๋ก ํน์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ธ๋ฉดํ๋ ํํ๊ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฃผ์ฅ์ ์ก๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด์ง ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ๋ํ ํ์ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ง์ผ์ผ ํ ํ๋ฌธ์ ์์ (Academic Freedom)์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ค์ํ ๊ฐ์น๋ค์ ๋ฌด์ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค.
์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ํจ๊ณผ: โ๋ฎ์ ์์ค์ ๋ถ์๊ฐโ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋์ ์์ค
๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํต์ ๋ฐฉ์๋ค์ด ๊ฒฐํฉ๋์ด ๋ํ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ โ๋ฎ์ ์์ค์ ๋ถ์๊ฐ(Low-Level Dread)โ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ผ์์ํ์ด ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ ๋์ โ๋์ ๋ถ์๊ฐ(High Anxiety)โ๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ๋ฎ์ ์์ค์ ๋ถ์๊ฐ ์์์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ง์ฅ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ , ์ฅ์ ๋ณด๊ณ , ์์ด๋ค ์ ์ฌ์ ์ค๋นํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐํด์(๋๋ ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ์ง๋์)๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ํ๋, ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์ฌํ์ ๊ด๊ณ ํ์ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฌด์๋ณด๋ค ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ๊ณํํ๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ์์คํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ญ๋๋ค.
๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ํผํด์๋ค์ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ์ด์ ์ ํํ ๊ณต๋ช ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๋ฎ์ ์์ค์ ๋ถ์๊ฐ ์ํ์ ์์ ๋, ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ํ๋์์ ๋ฒ์ด๋๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฑํด D.C.์ ํ ๊ธฐ๊ด(DC SAFE)์ ์๊ธฐ ์ํฉ(์: ํญ๋ ฅ ๋ฐ์ ํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ ์ถ๋)์์ ํผํด ๊ฐ์กฑ์๊ฒ 24์๊ฐ ๋ถ๋์ ์ํํ(์๋ฃํ ์นด๋, ๊ธฐ์ ๊ท, ๋ถ์ ๋ฑ)์ด ๋ด๊ธด โ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ(Go Bag)โ์ ์ ๊ณตํ์ ๋, ํผํด์๋ค์ด ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ฆด ์ ์์์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ถฉ์กฑ๋์ ์ ์๋๋ง ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๊ฐ์ ํ ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ ์๊ฒผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค.
๋ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ โ์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ ๋์ง ์์๋์?(Why didnโt they just leave?)โ๋ผ๋ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ฌ์ฑ์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ ์ฌ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ด๋ฃ์ , ๋ฌผ๋ฅ์ , ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ ค์์ ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ํผํด์๊ฐ ์ง์ ๋ ๋๋ ์ด๋ ค์๊ณผ ๋ค๋ฅด์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋ ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ์์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์์์ ์ถ์ด๋ ์ํฉ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ์ผ์ ์๋ จ ์์ ๋ถ๋ชจ๋์ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ด ๋ฐ ์ง๋ด ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก โ์๋ฐฉ์ ์กด์ฌ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ ๋ฌด์์ด๋?โ๊ณ ๋ฌผ์๋ ์ผํ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด์ค(Levis) ์ฒญ๋ฐ์ง ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌผ์ง์ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ ๋ก โ๋ง๋ฒ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฐฉโ์์ ์๋์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ์๋ฐ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณณ์์ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ก๋์ง ์ ์ ์์๋ ๋น์์ ๊ทน์ฌํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๊ฐ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค.
ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ ์ํ
์ด์ ์ด ๋ ผ์๋ฅผ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌํ, ํนํ ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ ๋์ ๋๋ค. ๋ ์ฌ์ ์ผ๋ง๊ณผ ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์์ ๊ฒฐํฉ๋๋ ์์์ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ถ๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ํธ๋ผํ ์ ๋ํต๋ น ์์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ์ฑ์๊ฒ ์ฑํญ๋ ฅ ํ์๋ก ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋์๊ณ ํ ๊ฑด์ ์ ์ฃ ํ๊ฒฐ์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ์ฅ๊ด ํผํธ ํค๊ทธ์ค(Pete Heggs)์ ๋ก๋ฒํธ F. ์ผ๋ค๋ ์ฃผ๋์ด(Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)๋ ์ฑํญ๋ ฅ ํ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ์ผ์ ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ ์ด๊ธฐ์ ์นด๋ฐ๋ ธ(Kavanaugh) ๋๋ฒ๊ด ์ฒญ๋ฌธํ๊ฐ ๋๋๋ ํธ๋ผํ๊ฐ ์ด๋๋ ์ด๋์ด ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฃจ๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ค์ ์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ก์๋ค๊ณ ์ง์ ํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ ์ด์ฒผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํ์์ด ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์๋ง ๊ตญํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋์ง๋ง, ์ด ํ์ ๋ถ์์๋ โ๋ป๋ปํจ(Shamelessness)โ์ ๋์ด ๊ฑฐ์ โ์๋ถ์ฌ(Pride)โ์ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ํ๋๊ฐ ๋ํ๋๋ค๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋๋ ์ฌํ ์ ๋ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ ์ํํ๋ ๋ฉดํ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ฌํ๋ฉฐ, ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ ์ดํด์จ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค(๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ํ๋ฃจ 3๋ช ์์ 5๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์ฆ๊ฐ).
ํนํ โ๊ฐ์์ ํต์ (Coercive Control)โ๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ์ด ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ํญ๋ ฅ ์ํ์ด๋ ํ์ค์ ๋ถ์์ ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ํตํด ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์์น ์๋ ํ๋์ ํ๋๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์์ JD ๋ฐด์ค(JD Vance)๊ฐ ์ ค๋ ์คํค(Zelensky) ๋ํต๋ น์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋นํํ๋ฉฐ โ๊ฐ์ฌํ ์ค ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋คโ๊ณ ๋งํ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์์ ํต์ ์ ์ ํ์ ์ธ ์์์ ๋๋ค.
๋ํ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌํ์๋ โ๋จ์ฑ ํญ๋ ฅ(Male Violence)โ์ ๋ํ ๋ฏธํ๊ฐ ์กด์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์กด ๋งค์ผ์ธ(John McCain) ์์์์์ ๋ฒ ํธ๋จ์ ์์์ ํญ๋ ฅ ํผํด ๊ฒฝํ์ ํตํด ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ ์ฒด์ฑ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ์ง๋ง, ์กฐ๋ ์ธ์คํธ(Jodie Ernst) ์์์์์ ์๋ ๊ฐ ์์์์์ง์ ์ํํ ํ์์ผ ์์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฑํญ๋ ฅ ์์กด์์์ ๋ฐํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋จ์ฑ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋ถ๋๋ฌ์ํ ์ผ์ด ์๋์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ํฐ ์์น์ฌ์ ๋๋ฐํ๋ฉฐ ํผํด์๋ค์ ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ํฌ์ฉํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์คํจํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ตฌ์ผ์ ๋จ์ฑ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฏธํ์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์์ธ๊ฐ ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ์ฌํ์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ๋ถํฉํ๋ค๊ณ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ์ฌํ๋ โ๋์๋ ์ฌํ(Mobilized Societies)โ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง์ผ๋ก์จ ๋จ๊ฒฐํ๊ณ ํจ๊ป ํญ๋ ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ํ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋ ์ฌํ์ ๋๋ค. ํธํด์ด ์ฐํฌ๋ผ์ด๋ ์นจ๊ณต์ ํตํด ๋ฌ์์ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋์ํ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด์ฃผ์ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ก ๋ณ๋ชจ์ํจ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ด๋ฌํ ๋จ์ฑ ํญ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฏธํ๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์ ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.