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Perhaps we can also look at this in terms of power dynamics. It's possible many of the students are not as devoted to their cause as it may seem. Instead, the c
by Overtonwindow 9y ago
Perhaps we can also look at this in terms of power dynamics. It's possible many of the students are not as devoted to their cause as it may seem. Instead, the cause has given these students power, over administrators, and others. That power can be intoxicating. So the students will use any opportunity they can to exert power over others, and expand that power. I think Evergreen is worth examining through the lens of Lord of the Flies.
- dmix 9y agoThe book "Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands" has a recurring theme about how this obsession with viewing everything in the world through the lens of 'power' has resulted in misguided, irrational, and just plain wrong thinking. Often from otherwise smart people. Power plays a role but it's only one of many. But reducing everything to that is a recipe for missing the big picture. Foucault's work is one of the great examples of this. He loved to reduce complex systems with many competing motivations as merely the products of power. https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Frauds-Firebrands-Thinkers-Left/dp/1472935950/ https://www.amazon.com/Fools-Frauds-Firebrands-Thinkers-Left...