How one responds to brushes with fame and how one responds when confronted with shame influences which stories are written and which are erased. Inside the self-serving institution there are parts kept at a distance, parts made up of untold stories, of stories forgotten, ignored, and obscured. The stories were not told or really heard because they revealed the failure of a community or its leaders. And while wearing glory-seeking frames, that failure reflected shame, and that shame couldn’t remain. These are the stories of people who have been cut off from their community because they reported a trusted person who abused them, or dared to dissent in a place of coerced assent, or blew the whistle on cover-up and corruption.
Cutting Off Reflected Shame
Cutting Off Reflected Shame
Cutting Off Reflected Shame
How one responds to brushes with fame and how one responds when confronted with shame influences which stories are written and which are erased. Inside the self-serving institution there are parts kept at a distance, parts made up of untold stories, of stories forgotten, ignored, and obscured. The stories were not told or really heard because they revealed the failure of a community or its leaders. And while wearing glory-seeking frames, that failure reflected shame, and that shame couldn’t remain. These are the stories of people who have been cut off from their community because they reported a trusted person who abused them, or dared to dissent in a place of coerced assent, or blew the whistle on cover-up and corruption.