Aye; after The Good Soldier ?@c5;a0;vejk, right?
It’s a natural and useful weapon for use against power, especially against a certain kind of bureaucratized and institutionalized hierarchy — like a government school, and like the military. True story: during World War II passive resistance along the lines of ?@c5;a0;vejk was so common in the U.S. conscript military that the military shrinks got together and decided to declare it a clinical disorder, a neurotic type reaction to routine military stress, manifested by helplessness, or inadequate responses, passiveness, obstructionism or aggressive outbursts.
And that’s how passive aggressive
entered into the psychiatric lexicon. Right next to the scratched-out entry for drapetomania, I guess.
I know that’s the point you’re already making, but it feels good to say the above ( :
By the way, there is something wrong with the use of the word,childish,in this culture.
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