High school dropouts

When dropouts are called people trying to free themselves by their conduct of social norms by " off " internally or externally from their concrete world.

A classic example was already in the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes, in the early Christian period the hermit monks in the Middle East or the Egyptian desert.

Today's examples are alternative movements like the hippies or the New Age Movement. Even former members of cults or of neo-Nazi structures are called dropouts, as well as people who leave their country to pursue elsewhere another lifestyle.

External and internal exit

To an outer exit counts that dropouts give up what seemed to them important in life before the exit or regulated their lives. For example, their employment, friends, faith communities, political systems and movements, the place of residence or old habits. The background for the withdrawal from the present life can be diverse. Basically, the exit is preceded by a lack of well-being, which usually refers to the group or the system of its previous life. Specifically criticism can be very fundamentally felt, but just as well be evasive and buzzwords.

Discussions with these dropouts show that the constraints and rules of a society often does not correspond to the inclinations and views ihrerselbst. Frequently called the increasing of dropouts capitalism as a trigger for their thoughts, of the social community against each other ausspiele by many of its properties and alienating.

Reasons for withdrawal are also utilized in various areas of interpersonal cohabitation or the mainstream. The norms and values ​​of disembarkation ligands often no longer correspond to those of the general public or the previously associated social group. Only radical change its position in the society sees the drop-out a way to balance his personal and an inward satisfaction restore.

Synonymous with an inner exit, in which a regular life is maintained superficial, but is inwardly broken with the outside world, it also uses the concept of " inner emigration ". This formulation was first used in post-war Germany to justify and as a reproach against the emigrants, if you had not left Hitler's Germany; it goes back to a polemic by Frank Thiess against Thomas Mann.

Theming in art

The phenomenon of political dropout was processed in various art forms, such as literature and film, but also in comics. As famous examples from the literature are:

  • Henry David Thoreau: Walden. (1854 )
  • Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha. An Indian seal ( 1922).

Especially since the 1960s emerged the issue in feature films increasingly on:

  • Easy Rider
  • Zabriskie Point
  • The Beach
  • Into the Wild

The comic The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is about three hippie dropouts and their adventures.

Well-known right-wing extremist dropouts

New social movements Religious organization Zabriskie Point (Film) The Beach (film) Into the Wild (film) Escapism Reimar Oltmanns Jon Krakauer
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