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> Imagine a society where the loudest, most aggressive kids grow up to run the meetings, set the rules, and decide who “fits.” Every time a quiet, talented, good person shows their work - a song, an idea, a careful observation — these aggressive kids mock it, twist it, or ignore it to protect their own status. Over years, those good people stop sharing, hide their skills, or retreat entirely, and the world loses what they could have built.
If the aggressors disappeared, those same people would feel safe to contribute - flooding society with art, innovation, kindness, and solutions we’ve been missing. The gain would be enormous, because the only thing the status addicts ever added was noise. The cost of their presence has been the silent suffocation of countless bright lives.