The Drama Triangle Beckons
The so-called "Easy" way really makes your life "Hell on Earth"
This is a great live stream with Deb Fillman on
with James Lindsay of - they discussed how the schools are brainwashing children to think from only one (communal) perspective so that they are unable to think from a personal perspective. They can know how they relate to other groups of cultures (based on skin color, gender, sexuality, etc), but they don’t feel prepared to see themselves as an individual.At the end there is some discussion of the “Woke Right” versus the “Woke Left” and I would say that it seems to me, that this is describing the people who see things in terms of the Drama Triangle. It’s a very limiting perspective, to only see others in black-and-white terms (AKA splitting). They can see someone as pure evil or pure good, but they have a large difficulty in seeing the events and people from another perspective (outside of the Drama Triangle).
They cannot see someone as morally good if they have “bad” beliefs or if they agree with another “bad” believer. The reason I write here is to try to illuminate that limited perspective (of the Drama Triangle) and explain that the way out is to take personal responsibility and expect others to take personal responsibility for their own lives as well.
It’s alluring. The idea of giving up your responsibility and shifting it onto another. It’s why people scapegoat. James mentioned in the video some books are like grimoires in that they seem to cast a spell on the person reading them. James once shared an article of mine calling the Drama Triangle a “Wizard’s Circle.” He sees this as some enchantment.
The Drama Triangle beckons you to take the easy path, to give up your responsibilities. It whispers, “Pass that responsibility onto someone else,” which lets you complain that things didn’t get done without feeling guilty for not being the one to do the work. Many people do this, people on all sides of the political aisle. It’s the difference between the narrow way and the broad way that Christ talked about.
Because so many people choose to live life the “easy” way to avoid responsibility they end up in “hell on earth.” That’s because actually taking responsibility makes you feel truly empowered. Giving up responsibility makes you feel disempowered and that’s why those who live within the Drama Triangle always want to get into political power. Giving up your responsibility is always going to make you feel powerless to get change to happen.
Our schools are teaching people to see from one, very limited, perspective because a lot of the teachers only have that perspective as well. We need to have children learning that they can see from multiple perspectives and they also need to know the benefits of taking personal responsibility and expecting personal responsibility from others.
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So well said. The splitting is ever present these days.
I'd heard of splitting b/c kids (people) on the spectrum tend to do this, at least until they are guided to conscientiously avoid doing it, but I'd not heard of the drama triangle and it makes so much sense. So what these schools are doing (and the culture at large too it seems) are intentionally teaching DISORDERED thinking. I wish. more people understood this!