The Suppressive and the Potential Trouble Source, 3
The expression, “A is PTS to B” means that A is subject to a suppression originating from B; as the expression become commonplace it may be used indicating as B a something instead of a someone. It is up to our alertness to never lose sight that when B is a something, then it implicitly implies a someone behind that something. One is not PTS to a degraded state; one is PTS to whom ensures one remains in that state, be it self or anyone else.
A suppressive is one who originates a suppressive pressure against one’s fellows; a potential trouble source is one who receives that pressure and, instead of prevent its spreading by detecting it and stopping it, relays it against self and others. A suppressive is cause, a potential trouble source is effect instead of being cause.
But what’s even worse is that the potential trouble source does not restrict himself or herself to relay, which is already inexcusable in itself, but, as if that were not enough, he or she amplifies it. And we know that the power of the signal getting out of an amplifier equals a thousand, a million times the power of the signal entering it.
Some say, "Sign of the times", but that is a misnomer. Things are caused. And intention is cause. There is no "sign of the times"; there is "sign of PTSness", "sign of apathy", "sign of apathy from unhandled PTSness".
The suppressive is the cause responsible for the potentially lethal disease, the potential trouble source is the cause responsible for its actually lethal epidemics, each one of us is the cause responsible for allowing any potential trouble source to be and do so. And on top of it all, the lid of the trap will be sealed by the personality shift of the victims assuming the identity of the oppressor.