The vacuum of purpose

The Natural Dynamics of Group Roles I have analyzed the dynamics of groups and the relationships forming within them for a long time. I started noticing patterns when I moved schools during my senior year of high school. By then, my old classroom had already formed archetypes and purposes. As usual, we had the teacher’s pets, the athletes, the nerds, the jokesters, the misfits—the whole ecosystem. All of that looked normal to me, just as the sun rises in the east. After all, I grew up with these kids; I observed them develop into their roles. I thought this was unique to our group of classmates. I was assigning the character traits to the person having them. I was very wrong, though... Discovering the Pattern Came senior year, I moved to another school in another city. As I joined the new class on the first day of school, I imidiatelly started to notice the same roles, just played by different kids. The jokester was a different student, yet every class seemed to have one. H...