Re:I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see...
by stone-monkey on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:00AM
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>The adult world, even at the highest levels of authority, largely consists of the same petty cliques, backstabbing, lying, and whatnot that you'd experience in high school
I'm not a fan of claiming this type of behavior is childish and something we leave behind after high school. Before advances in mass transportation that made it feasible for people to uproot and move to a new community, most people were stuck in the same ingroup for most of their lives.
High school is just a cultural relic that mimics this previous social grouping. It's not necessarily something that kids do that we grow out of - it's the other way around - modern society has broken the existing communities we had in place, but in return gives us the freedom to find new ones anywhere we want.
Re:I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see...
by mistermann on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:51AM
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My point was basically that people tend to have this idea in their mind that for the most part, adults "behave like adults", in that they grow out of the negative social behaviors that are easily observed in a school setting, whereas the reality seems to be that what's actually happening is that this behavior simply becomes more sophisticated and better hidden, or ignored as if it didn't exist.
Re:I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see...
by pwinnski on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:04AM
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The leak of Sony emails a while back revealed that high-level Sony execs seemed to emailing at the emotional maturity level of middle-schoolers.
Re:I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see...
by wallace_f on Thursday July 25, 2019 @11:14AM
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After I had my traumatic experiences, I started thinking of it as more-like childish behavior, not even high school. Even at high school, a lot of people are the same childhood monsters with just a bit of persona, gravitas, connections and expertise. At least, that's what I thought. Some people grow out of it and become enlightened, but most don't and just become phonies.
On the other side of these experiences, when everything is going well it's easy to ignore all that's wrong with people.
Re:I thought I was being ‘blacklisted’, so I demanded to see...
by dependenttypes on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:17PM
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Do you have a link?
It's quite amazing how large the gap is between the way the world is described to us through various mediums, versus the clearly observable reality of it.
FTA:
> I approached the individuals and the institutions concerned about the content of my Subject Access Request. They all refused to discuss the matter with me, so I can only speculate as to what was going on.
Of course, these people were just "avoiding drama" they'd tell us. But then, is avoiding drama that what they were doing when they were trashing this person behind their back in emails?
I think people have a tendency to conceptualize a stark, "real" line between adolescence and adulthood, but the reality of the matter seems to be that many adults are little more than high school kids plus some added expertise in some narrow domains. The adult world, even at the highest levels of authority, largely consists of the same petty cliques, backstabbing, lying, and whatnot that you'd experience in high school.