A: Most of us grow up assuming that the adults around us are operating from a deeper level of stability, clarity, and maturity. When that assumption is exposed, it’s surprising, or even disturbing, to see how much of adult behavior is still organized around things like fear, belonging, certainty, and identity protection. The same forces that drive children.
This is a really common experience in Disruption where roles, identities, institutions, and especially authority figures, come into question. You get that first glimpse behind the veil of previously unquestioned beliefs and start recognizing that much of what you trusted was built on shared illusion. And once that happens, you can’t comfortably go back to the old story.