I dunno, I went to a "British-style" prep school in the US and it definitely made me a harder person than I ever needed to be. It took me a couple of decades to remove that armor and be able to connect better with people.

Weird for me to come across a reference to the "Eton Fainting Game" a day after coming across it described as "The American Dream" in Blindboy's newest episode[0]. I will say the one time it worked for me in school I did have the most vivid . . . dream.

[0] https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/saint-brigid-solvent-buse-...

Oh no, it's absolutely by design. It's a factory for producing broken people capable of committing atrocious acts of cruelty for the Empire. Now there is no Empire, they've turned on their own people.