>>510797521Agreed. I take exception to the idea of “natural hierarchy” because it implies that these flaws cannot be worked on, which I think is antithetical to the purpose. You do not need to be told
>you’re a fat dweebSo you can be sure that you are a fundamentally inferior class of person, and recognize who your naturally-ordained bettere are. You need to be told
>you’re a fat dweebSo you can lose weight and gain some social confidence
The point is that you can be better, you just have to want it. The trick is that if you create a social system that is too negative, it becomes easier to give up on oneself than to work on oneself. Think about it like a workplace; a boss who says
>you suck at this job! Go faster! Be better!Will probably get SOME improvement in performance, but not as much as could reasonably be achieved if the boss approached things in a more positive way. The thing is, you can’t change that scenario by saying
>bosses being critical of your work is evil and bad, your work is beautiful just the way it is, you don’t need to changeBecause that’s how you get Detroit
I’d rather have a tyrant than a coward for a leader, but neither situation is really ideal. The ideal is to tell the truth without fear in a way that promotes a positive mindset about changing it. But that takes time, effort, expertise and experience, and none of those is readily available in the halls of a high school, so we sort of get what we get.