I will agree the author sounds like he is living in fantasy land, but, fighting back can and does work. I was a picked on band nerd in middle school, and final

I will agree the author sounds like he is living in fantasy land, but, fighting back can and does work. I was a picked on band nerd in middle school, and finally snapped on two kids who pushed me around after school. I knocked one out with my clarinet case to his head and got in a tumble with the other. I wasn't bothered after that, even though I was still the same annoying easy to pick on personality. There was no outright war either, which I doubt happens except in the most undisciplined urban settings...