Plenty of clever boys at well-funded public schools have an ancap phase. Most of them grow out of it.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Make Obnoxious Teenage Boys Read J D Salinger Again.
Better complaining about a bunch of “phonies” then “I’m the smartest and bestest boy and I could totally be on top of everything the government (my mom) didn’t make me have a bed time.”
Private schools though I think they’d have a problem with the public ones.
Plenty of clever boys at well-funded public schools have an ancap phase. Most of them grow out of it.
Make Obnoxious Teenage Boys Read J D Salinger Again.
Better complaining about a bunch of “phonies” then “I’m the smartest and bestest boy and I could totally be on top of everything the government (my mom) didn’t make me have a bed time.”
Please don’t. That book is so overrated.