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| From the Mouths of Babes Comes a Great Deal of Nonsense |
| 2018-02-23 |
| h/t Instapundit [PJMedia] There is something broken in the brain of humans. All humans, going back as far as we can tell. Call it being built on the frame of a great ape, or call it, if you’re inclined that way religiously, the result of the Fall. Or as a friend of mine puts it, "the Fall was worse than we thought." This particular flaw in reasoning is that children know best. In the course of my degree, I read countless Medieval ballads in which the children at the breast spoke up and identified the true king. This kind of thought persuaded kings and church that the Children’s Crusade would have a peculiar power. Our entire culture went mad-crazy for the young people in the sixties, something that also ties into the Romantics' idea that the savage, untutored, and unsophisticated was naturally better. ...Child, you don’t rise that high. You’re a poor concussed creature who’s been lied to so much in his life that he doesn’t even know that where there’s smoke there is fire and that no, a bunch of high school students aren’t organizing buses and arranging for demonstrations all over the country. But more importantly, you don’t realize that you’re pursuing goals that you’re not sure about, and which you simply were told to pursue because the left thinks that if words come out of children’s mouths that magically makes them right. You’re neither the first one nor, frankly, the last kid to want something stupid, or to think they have the solution for the world. ...Someday you’ll understand all that. At least you’ll understand that, if you ever break free of the indoctrination rammed down your throat by power-hungry people who use you to exploit the flaw in the human mind that tells us that children are always right. And someday you’ll understand that those who dance in the blood of children and convince the survivors to push for measures that wouldn’t prevent this ‐ but would give those despicable opportunists more power ‐ are not your friends. Till then, this is a dangerous world, and the adults are talking. Children should stay indoors, and learn how the world works. Wouldn't hurt either if they learn some Algebra & Geometry |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 "From the Mouths of Babes Comes a Great Deal of Nonsense" And in the mouths of babes are Tide pods. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-23 18:49 |
| #3 the flaw in the human mind that tells us that children are always right There are many other flaws, relevant to this issue, than the one this author wrote up. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-23 12:17 |
| #2 Children should stay indoors, and learn how the world works. Poor kids, they are not going to learn that in school, nor from their parents. Maybe they could try a little independent reading. Many books that would benefit them are now available online. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-23 12:15 |
| #1 The difference is, this is the selfie generation. A camera pointed their way is like crack, they simply can't resist. If the media was selling the message that their mothers are hookers and their daddies are pimps, the kids would check their hair and facial piercings, smile and say "Yeah!" |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-02-23 08:39 |