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Ironically, this social isolation punishment is very 'yin' in nature rather than 'yang' which often deals w/ problems via open and direct conflict. It affects boys more too since they're often more naughty/spunky/abrasive.

the Socratic Method of polishing a bunch of rough stones by tossing them together against each other no longer works b/c we're so bad as dealing with conflict.

Ironically this gets us into huge conflicts about how best to avoid conflict.

Yet the socratic method of just questioning things is a very core mechanism of finding truth. e.g. what quarantine work setups don't have are these random musing moments where random questions are asked.

Most lines of honest inquiry are mocked. Like that girl who said that 'math isn't real' until the crowd decided to rescue her and shift the narrative to praising her courage to think for herself.

As childlike innocence is lost the crowd is less and less inclined to do so. Boys lose it faster. Often it's stripped away from them by force. I suspect a teenage boy making the same claim would be mocked mercilessly.

All they have left in this world is to follow an authority who will tell them what to do so that they aren't rejected and can be of some use to the world. Even if that authority is just giving them a gun and telling them where to shoot.

When you have a cat as a pet there's a certain way to interact with it to minimize scratches. However this happens through experience and getting to know each other, not through a 10 thousand edge case step by step algorithm.