Haters Gotta' Hate

The necklace all students receive
for going on Kairos.

     Kairos. The whole school is talking about it. At my high school Kairos is the closest thing that we have to a cult. For the readers who are still in the dark, Kairos is a retreat that high schoolers around the country can attend at a location nearest them. The retreat usually has a religious affiliation and the most important thing about the retreat is that the people who attend it can not tell anyone what goes on during the retreat. Not only is the whole thing very secretive, but all the retreatants also come back very close. There is even a well know term, "the Kairos hug", because that is how all the retretants greet each other after they come back.
     Due to the fact students come back "different" and the whole thing is so secret, many of the non-retreatants tend to hate on the Kairos kids a bit. I do not mean physical violence or anything along those lines, most of the hate is through jokes. At my high school there are a lot of jokes and the Kairos kids do not take it very well, but I do not know if it is the same at other high schools. I live in a pretty wealthy suburb and there is not a huge amount of poor people or outcast type students. So, since there is not a lot of other outcasts, Kairos is left with all the hate in our school.
     Our power hungry society is constantly fighting within itself. People want power because with power comes control. Power is just another thing like living in the upper class; people see it, want it, and then try to work for it. Ostracizing people is a quick way to gain power and as long as there is a power struggle there will be ostracizing.
    Why do we need to feel superior to people? What is there was no struggle for power?