Why does getting bullied at school cause such a lasting and unique impact on people? Former bullying victims maintain lasting grievances into adulthood, lash out at anyone that resembles their bully in any capacity, and view all of society through the lens of high school social dynamics. Quite a few political movements of the recent years can be attributed to bullying-induced resentment. They seem more affected than people with any other trauma, even trauma much more serious than having your outfit mocked by Becky when you were 14.
A first experience during formative years provides a template for future experiences. You can change the template but it's hard work. Also, our era applauds resentment. It's the perfect way to get intensity without taking any risk nor action.
Not OP but just to counter this let me say; I was "bullied", teased and beaten before secondary school, but nothing had the psycho-logical impact on me that social ostracization from the age of 14-17 had.
>Why does bad things happening to people when they are young affect them when they are older?
It is wrong and immature to externalize childhood social trauma but to deny it on the basis of that phenomenon alone is very retarded.
It's not that I am mad that it happened to me; rather as I get older I see how sacred childhood is and should be taken much more seriously than it currently is in many societies, in which ever form that comes as.
Childhood social trauma takes on a very unique and severe form in North America that is not appreciated enough in discourse.
>>1490 Lol how is this even a question? Every continental thinker since like Schelling has understood that subjective freedom and objective reality are pinned together in the sublimation of trauma, which creates the sustainable structure around which personality forms.