In school we learned how to dream effectively, though not by the teachers, and not by the books:

it was all attitude, and that was something you had even if you had to fake it — and it’s a scary thing

when you’re twelve, and that attitude is real — though even in its most genuine, it was mostly posturing,

shuffling out the alpha males and females from the beta, learning submissive postures early,

that pyramid of popularity we learned more and more up through high school, and never really outgrew:

because we find that those same people who run high school are those same people that run the world:

and it’s all attitude, the tragedy being that if you fake it for long enough, you become that fake.