Psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s “After Babel” substack compiles a mammoth load of nonsense showing how politicians and interests exploit young people as profitable commodities
If you have read Lloyd deMause's work, which I assume you have, then you know Euripides insight still applies: “The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.”
Haidt and the Herd busy themselves “downstream” trying to pull the younger ones out of the River of Harm by taking away their phones, etc.
We must go all the way “upstream” to the source of the Trauma causing the Self-Other Harm at all ages, and that is Parenting itself.
Until and unless we make the changes there in the Matrix (etymology Mother) of Humanity we will continue to have resuscitated victims ready to jump in themselves or throw in others again.
“We are today like a group of people standing on the banks of a river trying desperately to save people we see drowning, but refusing to go upstream and stop them from being thrown in. The reduction of human violence involves prevention first of all—the removal of the source of the illness—just like the prevention of any other human clinical disorder. The evolution of the psyche is first of all accomplished by removing terrible abuses of children and their resulting developmental distortions, allowing the psyche to produce historical novelty and achieve its own inherent human growth path. Culture evolves through the increase of love and freedom for children. Can we afford not to teach parenting? What more important task can we devote our resources to?” Lloyd deMause
I believe the best way to get parents interesting in learning how and why to peacefully parent is to get them to begin to see the “Elephant in the Room/Womb”: PARENTARCHY—the largely unconscious legitimization for and justification of the use/abuse of Power to Control that so-called “Adults” (traumatized as children) practice and perpetuate with their children as Sub-Human species more akin to pets, slaves or robots with no Human Rights. And of course it always ends with “it’s for your own good” end that every Ruler uses to justify its coercive means.
“Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control…” John Acton
Indeed, people like Haidt and the Herd are willing to do anything and everything they can to help young people, except take their boots off of their necks. We live in a society where children and young people are still treated by "adults" as slaves, serfs, pets, or vermin.
I consider this is because Haidt and the Herd KNOW their foot is in that boot upon the necks of the younger dispossessed of autonomy. Such foot and boot is what the concept of PARENTARCHY is trying to put the spotlight of language upon.
Thank you for continuing to champion our childrens’ human rights. I have come to refer to the American childhood as a period of hazing for children by the adults and other children. It’s sickening!
Well presented, Mike.
If you have read Lloyd deMause's work, which I assume you have, then you know Euripides insight still applies: “The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.”
Haidt and the Herd busy themselves “downstream” trying to pull the younger ones out of the River of Harm by taking away their phones, etc.
We must go all the way “upstream” to the source of the Trauma causing the Self-Other Harm at all ages, and that is Parenting itself.
Until and unless we make the changes there in the Matrix (etymology Mother) of Humanity we will continue to have resuscitated victims ready to jump in themselves or throw in others again.
“We are today like a group of people standing on the banks of a river trying desperately to save people we see drowning, but refusing to go upstream and stop them from being thrown in. The reduction of human violence involves prevention first of all—the removal of the source of the illness—just like the prevention of any other human clinical disorder. The evolution of the psyche is first of all accomplished by removing terrible abuses of children and their resulting developmental distortions, allowing the psyche to produce historical novelty and achieve its own inherent human growth path. Culture evolves through the increase of love and freedom for children. Can we afford not to teach parenting? What more important task can we devote our resources to?” Lloyd deMause
I believe the best way to get parents interesting in learning how and why to peacefully parent is to get them to begin to see the “Elephant in the Room/Womb”: PARENTARCHY—the largely unconscious legitimization for and justification of the use/abuse of Power to Control that so-called “Adults” (traumatized as children) practice and perpetuate with their children as Sub-Human species more akin to pets, slaves or robots with no Human Rights. And of course it always ends with “it’s for your own good” end that every Ruler uses to justify its coercive means.
“Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control…” John Acton
Indeed, people like Haidt and the Herd are willing to do anything and everything they can to help young people, except take their boots off of their necks. We live in a society where children and young people are still treated by "adults" as slaves, serfs, pets, or vermin.
I consider this is because Haidt and the Herd KNOW their foot is in that boot upon the necks of the younger dispossessed of autonomy. Such foot and boot is what the concept of PARENTARCHY is trying to put the spotlight of language upon.
Get free, stay free--at any and all ages.
Amen
Thank you for continuing to champion our childrens’ human rights. I have come to refer to the American childhood as a period of hazing for children by the adults and other children. It’s sickening!
Well said, Mike!