School Refusal and the Geopolitics of Institutional Paranoia

School Refusal and the Geopolitics of Institutional Paranoia

The article examines modern school refusal as an intuitive rejection of bureaucratic surveillance, administrative discipline, and institutional decay. Contrasting domestic micro-policing with significant geopolitical shifts like fighter jet agreements and submarine developments, it advocates cultivating personal sovereignty, independent education, and practical resilience rather than pathologizing human resistance to failing systems.