ESS Podcast Episode 008

Episode 8: Discussing Bullying with Wasim

Wasim and I share our experiences with bullying in the school setting and exchange our perception on the topic.

Episode008

You attempt to define bullying at the start, but by 11th minute you did not mention the criminal effect of closed space schooling on the phenomenon of bullying! It is easy to walk out from a bully on the playground. Bullies get abandoned and make sorry figures. It is the school that puts kids together in a cage with no easy option out. This is the theft of freedom that stands at the core of bullying. There is no better expert on bullying than the victim, and yet even then it may be hard to model the phenomenon theoretically. No wonder then that a typical adult will blame bullying on bad kids without ever realizing that closed behavioral spaces breed bulling by the rules of game theory. Spontaneously and naturally. It is not the kids who are to be blamed. It is the system that inevitably trains the classes of human bullies and human victims.

PiotrWozniak

Same-sex bullying claim isn't always true. A small girl may be a victim of a bully boy just because she is easy to toss around. Other guys may have no inclination to bully, but may gradually be drawn in just because they need to be part of the pack. This is how closed systems naturally breed bullying. Moral code may take long to develop and is no protection in such cases (esp. for younger kids). Cultures just add different color to the same game. The game is inevitable

PiotrWozniak