this bizarre modern fixation upon the idea that all difficulties are pathologies and that no one ever had a hard time or found life confusing or adolescence disorienting before and that everyone needs to be medicated has become a full blown mental illness of its own.
it’s not the people who are sick.
it’s a severe societal problem and likely a symptom of a society that’s broken.
a lot of this is a normal reaction to abnormal situations and deprivations.
and it’s time we start looking at taking another path.
*snip*
what is half the trick of being a parent is not to obsessively partake of every part of childhood to render it “safe”? what if parents simply should not see how much of the sausage of growing up is made because they lack the stomach for it?
*snip*
if you cannot govern yourself, someone else is going to come along and do it for you, good and hard, for he who adjudicates grievance may easily rule the plaintiffs and demand ever more baroque and debased prostrations to whatever is passing for “authority.”
struggle, like time in the weight room, serves a purpose. and removing it, no matter how well meaning your intentions, constitutes harm, not help.
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Originally Posted by Yngvi
