And to be clear, a lot of this is true. Frame control breaks your reality down to fit another one, and while I view this as poisonous, the act of breaking down your frame can have huge benefits—similarly to how forcing a child to sit through school might break their creativity but give them the ability to reliably perform boring tasks.
I don’t think similar is the right word here. In the normal school setting a good teacher has frame control within his classroom.
A key difference between your dad as you describe it is that the standard school teacher has a certain scope within which he has the societal authority to control the frame. On the other hand there no clear limit to the scope of what your dad can control about you.
In disfunctional cult contexts the power to control the frame is also not scoped but everything has to happen under the frame of the cult and there’s limited contact with people outside of the cult. When it comes to cults, it can be a mistake to give too much weight to the leader. Osho didn’t commit the biggest bioterror attack on the US at the time, his right hand did.
Given that Leverage seemed to got dissolved after different internal groups were in conflict and had different narratives, it seems to me like Geoff himself did not have enough frame control over it to get everyone to the same narrative so had to dissolve the group because it was his only way to end the internal conflicts. Reducing those complex group dynamics to problems with one person is not helpful.
I don’t think similar is the right word here. In the normal school setting a good teacher has frame control within his classroom.
A key difference between your dad as you describe it is that the standard school teacher has a certain scope within which he has the societal authority to control the frame. On the other hand there no clear limit to the scope of what your dad can control about you.
In disfunctional cult contexts the power to control the frame is also not scoped but everything has to happen under the frame of the cult and there’s limited contact with people outside of the cult. When it comes to cults, it can be a mistake to give too much weight to the leader. Osho didn’t commit the biggest bioterror attack on the US at the time, his right hand did.
Given that Leverage seemed to got dissolved after different internal groups were in conflict and had different narratives, it seems to me like Geoff himself did not have enough frame control over it to get everyone to the same narrative so had to dissolve the group because it was his only way to end the internal conflicts. Reducing those complex group dynamics to problems with one person is not helpful.