Chapter 7: Why Current Anti-Bullying Strategies Fail
My greatest inspiration for writing this book was to bring some more insight about truths we find hard to recognize or speak about. Having been introduced to the less obvious aspects of bullying and the less visible types of bullies, the reasons for the fiasco of some of the current anti-bullying strategies are probably becoming clearer.
Regardless of all reason of civilization, humans are still irrational beings. It is unrealistic to expect that we can all behave in a rational way all the time. We err and act irrationally. We produce unsuccessful anti-bullying weapons. We fail to tackle bullies because:
We base school anti-bullying methods on quick fixes and band-aid solutions. We avoid getting deeper into the problem and seeing the problem for what it really is. When someone who is an adult doesn’t have the necessary skills to deal with bullies, it is difficult to nurture a child who knows better!
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It is linked with weakness and fear. A lot of the powerlessness comes down to perceptions and to missing the right set of skills for seeing, discovering, using and developing our personal empowerment. There is a massive amount of wrong perceptions about one’s real powers estimated by multiple social comparison scales and perpetuated by persistent social pressure from large social machines, such as the media and the businesses. Social machines are created by people, and not all people have a healthy aggression useful for social change. On the contrary, many powerful people who make important decisions affecting millions have a sad relationship to their own power and thus effectuate and support distorted power