Getting Scraped Up in High School

Despite all the talk about failure porn in our culture now, people are still really reluctant to experiment with anything out of their comfort zone. Part of it goes back to indoctrination. No prizes for getting scraped up in school a and high school is an unforgiving place where people who need to find status through separation will remind us forever of the thing we didn't do right. And you can get there with sleeping on a couch and brown rice and black beans.