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To PROTECT our children!
We must do that, first and foremost, by dumbing them down as much as possible and presenting them with conceptual and verbal inconsistencies that will plague them and confuse them for many years to come. Of course, for most of us, it is simply our way, (and job) of passing on the very confusion and manipulation we have been given. We tend to do that without question or difficulty as we can see in the results.
Our biggest mistake, though we can rarely see it, is to let our children imagine that any thought they have or words they might encounter bear a greater gravity or meaning than what has been ascribed to them by our cultures. Thought control begins with word control and word magic, as I like to call it. Words and thoughts are rather ephemeral and intangible, but god forbid you have one! Expletives have an important place and time, but the emphasis is on what you think, not on the context of what you might say. A free thinker with a free mind could think anything and be able to discern what is appropriate for action in the culture it exists in. That is not so for the legacy we tend to give our offspring and so, we tend to imprison them.
Just think about your own, personal reactions to depictions of natural human sexuality versus the prevalent and almost ubiquitous violence that our children see. I bet you would be more concerned about your kids seeing a sex act, (dirty) no matter how loving and natural, than you would about the endless and pervasive acts of violence, harm, and pain that they might encounter. What does that say to you about your own state of mind and where you stand in this culture and its values and ideals?
Imagine this as an example: Your children are watching a movie with you. A man and a woman who are clearly in love have an intimate experience that is not depicted graphically, but we seem some definite interaction and maybe some nude body parts. Now, that man goes out with a semi-automatic and graphically and explicitly decimates scores of human beings while blood spews out all over the screen.
My question is here, which set of scenes makes you feel most uncomfortable in relation to what you young, impressionable children are encountering? Which of the two, not matter in what shape or form they appear, sexual or violent, would you rather they did not see?
For me, I would much rather my child see a man and a woman, (or two people) experience and engage in some form of nonessentials love making that ye ids mutual satisfaction and pleasure than to see any form of murder, mayhem, destruction, or pain infliction on unwilling recipients.
That is a good gauge by which you can measure what you have been taught to think is acceptable in relation to what you are currently accepting and upholding as important, moral, and viable in a moral sense.
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