Group of 7 teens, all but one of them dressed in black, walking together
Funeral bound? © Vytas Stoskus, 2024

Power Dressing = A Public Display of One’s Powerlessness

Vytas Stoskus

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True freedom & genuine leadership both begin with being authentic, being who you truly are, not playing some role or being pretentious. Being who one is includes wearing whatever the hell one wants to wear, not accepting some uniform as one’s garb.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy & Simon Cowell are prime examples of such leadership. They wear their t-shirts in comfort, both physically & emotionally, whereas the rest have no balls to dump the uniform & cower in line to get fitted into the newest style of black straightjacket. I, however, cannot discern the slightest difference between one black rag & another & wear the clothes I found in yard sales decades ago that are well broken in & perfectly comfortable in any setting. Only the weather has a say in what I wear. They’ll probably outlast me. Too bad there’s no reincarnation because I’m sure they’d probably last me another round.

Seeking “power dressing” is a public announcement of one’s personal wimpiness & irrelevance. Instead of coming off as someone to heed, someone whose words one should mind, a power dresser comes off as a candy-assed wimp with no mind or will of one’s own with a tether around one’s neck, a leash which can also be used as a hangman’s noose.

Schools start kids into this wiping out of individuality & self-expression; after all, the…

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Vytas Stoskus
Vytas Stoskus

Written by Vytas Stoskus

Social psychologist, psychotherapist (Worldwide thru Skype), conflict mediator; organizational, creativity, & unschooling consultant; Heretic, outside agitator.

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