But that's just it. Have you been to a school recently? Or around kids? While the phenomenon you describe is undoubtedly happening, I know teachers and I know what they encounter and what they have to deal with to sequester children in any given setting. Children are rambunctious and crazy. Violence both physical and emotional are inflicted on them to make them conform. But there is not a flicker of a sign of that reality in these mainstream news articles. They aren't born perfect little automatons like we adults are trained to be over long periods of systemic oppression from the system. They erase childhood from the news.MrSinclair wrote:Hoi, I think it has much to do with the erosion and elimination of unstructured playtime for children. This is one of the most critical components of development replaced with smothering, hovering, controlling, structuring and all the other shit parents do too much of.
This coupled with all that goes on in the schools has led towards a high degree of entrained helplessness amongst the youth. For example they find it almost impossible in many cases to communicate with adults who occupy no clear position of authority, relation, job function etc.If everything is a potential crisis and every crisis has a manager that amounts to emotions being put on cue and controlled much like one would do with a dog.
If all the teens who watched Loose Change would wake up and migrate over to here that would be a step in the right direction.
The authoritarian kind of stern British-style disciplinary smothering and so forth doesn't seem to turn off the rebellion of any classes I'm familiar with. This isn't college where everyone is stuck to their desk out of sheer terror of a financial abyss. The point is this subject isn't even one in the news stories about these events. It's just "tragedy, crying, okay, story's done, we're gone" ... Are all these boarding schools? Charter Catholic schools? Why focus on the children if you aren't going to give them a voice other than what has been sanctioned? It defeats the point that the children are sad because it's clear in every one of these farces that they are only sad and supportive of the security initiative because that is the only emotion and response allowed to them by the media.
It's bad enough we don't see a variety of thoughts from adults in these so-called "historic events"; but to get none from uninhibited children is just plain dumb and unrealistic. In fact, there are just as many wild opinions about it as there are parenting styles — to the nth degree, and that's just what is lacking. IMO.
But I suppose if you really think about it, journalism has always lacked variety because of its delusional quest for a scientifically and socially neutral position.
