Without curiosity, the brain is dead.
Created | Updated Sep 8, 2009
People who believe they are grown-up adults because they have left their childish ways behind usually are so childish in their beliefs that any child can look at them, listen to them and realize that their own first childhood is in abeyance while the 'grown-up' is celebrating their third or fourth childhood.
It is entirely possible that some people live too long nowadays. Here is G*ddess, microbes and national disasters trying to put them in their well-deserved graves and along comes some idiot in a lab coat to put them back on their feet.
A happy orphan beats a miserable child of stupid parents any day.
People who have forgotten what it means to be a child yet whom perpetuate their childish habits and believe them to be their right as a "adult" have lost their birthright has humans. Of course, if they were treated like dirt as children, then it is possible that they have never learned that children should be allowed their curiosity and when they have children of their own, instead of doing a little research or opening their minds to the experience, they fall back on the stupidity and ignorance of their parents so they'll have someone to talk to when the social services take their kids away because they've been insanely brutal to them.
What is the point of universal education if the teachers can't get through to the kids that parenthood is not an opportunity for brutality, mentally and physically? Of course, if the schools actually had teachers, instead of educational robots gurgitating standardized tests so politicians can grade the schools instead of the system, then our children would not have to vacillate between what they know and what they are supposed to say.
A nanny state serves no purpose if it can't wipe it's own bum.
As an aspie, I am not supposed to be normal. I have spent most of my life trying to learn to function on a planet that has no place for me, in a culture that would rather I just disappear, and jobs where I was supposed to fit in even if it meant a lobotomy. I really don't know what 'normal' is, because there are so many flavours of abnormality accepted as part of daily life that it is very hard for me to believe that insanity is not the usual human condition. If you are not born insane, then the society and the workplace will do their best to make sure you are close to insane before you retire or die.
I have seen too many of the middle class who have no thoughts of their own, who only speak in quotes, and think that decriminalization of marijuana is the most important thing the government can ever do before it collapses and leaves them wondering what happened to the checks they used to receive in the mail.
