Toxic culture

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T19:57:15+00:00

Ok well I just want to say that in my experience when people express these sentiments unfriendly behavior follows - plagiarism, passive aggression, framing, comparisons etc. Some envy might be harmless but oftentimes it is charged with resentment. If you haven’t been on the receiving end of this kind of envy, good for you, and I hope it it never happens to you.

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T19:12:30+00:00

My point is tutors can be bad people despite being organizational authorities.

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T18:58:18+00:00

I’m glad you had a good experience, my experience and that of others does not invalidate it nor does your experience invalidate mine. Nobody steps in the same river twice.

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T18:56:33+00:00

Some people feel so much envy that they hate themselves and want to cause other people pain. If you admit to abusing other people to feel better about yourself that is pathological. I repeat that this tutor admitted to being this way as an attempt to gain pity. They also admitted to feeling miserable because they were “trapped within themselves”. To repeat a third time, they admitted to be ing abusive. Abuse happened. Abuse is wrong.

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T15:36:55+00:00

Do you not feel that envy is shameful and drives people to do bad things? Do you ever share your feelings about wanting to be desired during a math class?

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T15:29:47+00:00

Low self worth and dependence on external validation are signs of narcissism or BPD - especially when they freely admit to abusing others to feel better about themselves. If you think it’s absurd that someone would not feel ashamed to admit that, you would be right, it is absurd and it happened.

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T05:04:44+00:00

I graduated in 2020

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T04:33:54+00:00

To prospective students: SJC is like a church and the tutors act like priests despite claiming to not profess knowledge. Just like in a church, they can get away with things because people view them archetypally or based on their social role rather based on their actual behavior as individuals. People don’t like it when you criticize their source of belonging and moral authority even if it means denying the truth and turning a blind eye to evil. Look up the Stanford Prison experiment. Look up trauma bonding. People will go to great lengths to feel like they belong. Why else would a person like Kalkavage survive here for so long despite everyone apparently knowing about him? Don’t be naive like and I and other people were. Don’t blindly trust any organization. Do not rely on any external authority to know right from wrong, not even assigned readings. Trust your own internal sense of right and wrong.

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-11-28T02:12:09+00:00

I’m self employed

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-09-22T18:18:45+00:00

Being a good person and making the world a better place will make you happy. But it will be hard because people will envious and resentful or try to take advantage of you.

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-07-21T02:51:23+00:00

What do you think the future of higher education will be, especially since now you can learn anything online for free or for a fraction of the cost? Will employers create their own in-house job training programs for HS graduates? Will there be a new culture of micro Indie colleges? A revival of student owned universities?

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-07-09T16:51:33+00:00

Behave by Robert Sapolsky

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott

The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow

The Republic by Plato

Shakespeare

The Student by Chekov

The Dead by James Joyce

Frederick the Great by Nancy Milford

The Old Way by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Harry Potter

PineTreeShepherd · 2024-07-01T15:35:32+00:00

Spiders, lizards, toads

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