I thought this aside was an extremely good snapshot of class of problem that I have seen come up in other contexts as well.
Briefly: People have a tendency to develop social bubbles that are, in a key way or two, way more comfortable or healthy for them. If you get strongly immersed in one, then “the rest of society” starts looking unpleasant or unhealthy, and what do you do with that when that hapens?
I don’t find it easy to answer! But I’d be curious to hear from other people about variants of this scenario that they’ve run into, how they’ve handled it, and how that has gone.
(It sounds like Leverage had a bit of this dynamic, combined with a feeling that the norms were up for grabs. I had not previously pegged that down about Leverage, but having that context feels helpful for making sense of it.)
What to do when society is wrong about something?
I thought this aside was an extremely good snapshot of class of problem that I have seen come up in other contexts as well.
Briefly: People have a tendency to develop social bubbles that are, in a key way or two, way more comfortable or healthy for them. If you get strongly immersed in one, then “the rest of society” starts looking unpleasant or unhealthy, and what do you do with that when that hapens?
I don’t find it easy to answer! But I’d be curious to hear from other people about variants of this scenario that they’ve run into, how they’ve handled it, and how that has gone.
(It sounds like Leverage had a bit of this dynamic, combined with a feeling that the norms were up for grabs. I had not previously pegged that down about Leverage, but having that context feels helpful for making sense of it.)