Have you every imagined how freesprited little children are? They do not have any biases, fears, inhibitions. They are confident, in taking their actions. Undisturbed by the impositions of right or wrong, they are assertive in most things they do. Little things make them happy. They find ways of keeping themselves engaged and busy in the world. The entire world is, for them. And the entire world for them is something to be engaged with, amenable and understandable like a toy. It is to taste, hear and smell, feel, see and play!
We kill it all in bringing them up - all sense of freedom, confidence, liberty, free thinking, curiosity - almost everything. Constantly subjecting them to fit the social codes of moral, behaviour, gender, sexuality, hierarchy, and everything controls being alive. We trap it, and then ask these very grown ups to fight for it. It's a shame.
I have many examples to demonstrate - those from my own family, things that I encounter everyday. Thoughts that are extremely sexist, conservative, bigoted - words from a family that thinks that it is progressive. The more I live in my home, the more I cringe - it is not the place. It is no longer my place.
Family is a disastrous institution - one that is busily knitting a trap, filtering all kinds of true expression, unwilling to accept dissent (seen as disrespect) and forever offering you an illusion of security. This security makes you weaker day by day, unfit to face the real world independently, failing you within a nest of bourgeoisie moral standards that prevent you from looking a world beyond the individual needs. The ambitions of a middle class family are so narrow that they may suffocate you for dreaming grand.
Yet they take pride in your so called ambition, the moral high order you set for yourself. A family in the contemporary conservative india is a failed institution. It produces babies and detaches it from all the values one is born with - those that essentially define one's ego. Those that need to be respected in an individual, those that make one an "individual". The family demands to fit into the social order, consume and succumb to a hierarchy. It kills babies, by killing its values. They dont bring up individuals, they kill them. They kill them to produce social robots - those that will forever feed into the never ending insecurities of their very own survival - survival of the body, their stinking morals and their long bygone outdated ethics.
We kill it all in bringing them up - all sense of freedom, confidence, liberty, free thinking, curiosity - almost everything. Constantly subjecting them to fit the social codes of moral, behaviour, gender, sexuality, hierarchy, and everything controls being alive. We trap it, and then ask these very grown ups to fight for it. It's a shame.
I have many examples to demonstrate - those from my own family, things that I encounter everyday. Thoughts that are extremely sexist, conservative, bigoted - words from a family that thinks that it is progressive. The more I live in my home, the more I cringe - it is not the place. It is no longer my place.
Family is a disastrous institution - one that is busily knitting a trap, filtering all kinds of true expression, unwilling to accept dissent (seen as disrespect) and forever offering you an illusion of security. This security makes you weaker day by day, unfit to face the real world independently, failing you within a nest of bourgeoisie moral standards that prevent you from looking a world beyond the individual needs. The ambitions of a middle class family are so narrow that they may suffocate you for dreaming grand.
Yet they take pride in your so called ambition, the moral high order you set for yourself. A family in the contemporary conservative india is a failed institution. It produces babies and detaches it from all the values one is born with - those that essentially define one's ego. Those that need to be respected in an individual, those that make one an "individual". The family demands to fit into the social order, consume and succumb to a hierarchy. It kills babies, by killing its values. They dont bring up individuals, they kill them. They kill them to produce social robots - those that will forever feed into the never ending insecurities of their very own survival - survival of the body, their stinking morals and their long bygone outdated ethics.
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