A Famil(y)iar Face __________________________________________________ ______________________________
I used to have a theory that parentage was the idea of instilling values and morals of a decent nature into children and it seems we all fail. But shockingly in reality its nature is so contradicting. Double standards issued by the dominant "role models" with such examples being "privacy", where upon the the child is encouraged to part with words they may not be comfortable to speak in anyone's company. Yet the adult(erers) set such an example by maintaining their privacy in "adult" issues. Everyone acts differently around their peers and it's so hard for the empowered to understand and they never will because at any attempt of explanation an opinion is underlined as rebellion or contempt. So we shape human beings and breed children like animals by using excessive physical force and I can say my backside still burns red at the stinging of a thousand slaps.
Is this violence our decaying society? Where words offend as much as the actions that give them meaning? He won't care anyway. Only his opinion is right. He always wins. There's nothing you can do. Submit to the stranglehold. Make your father proud. You'll let him down one day. The pressure is always there. You're always tied and bound. You'll never be free because in this life we don't do things democratically. You don't have a voice and when they tell you to shut up you know damn sure to give them your silent obedient consent. Or find yourself on the scrap heap. And they accuse you of acting like you don't care in this one-way relationship. (Doesn't that contradict the meaning of the very word "relationship"?)
I'll never stop paying my thanks for how I've been brought up (I wasn't dragged up that's for sure), and there's a difference between respect and disagreement. Disagreement will always exist so why not deal with it rationally and responsibly - like an adult one could say. but it doesn't mean I appreciate the incessant ruse to act on someone else's accord. Would you rather be proud of a child for standing up for what they believe? Standing for a diplomatic solution to family disagreements, rather than threats of say: violence, financial abandonment or simply out-casting? Funny how nation states act in a nearly identical way. When will families stop acting like institutions and governments? And actually play a part in coercing this splintered world.
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