The culture wars feel an awful lot like a generational war, a collective yawp from a slice of an older generation that has seen its children turn into people that are not what they had planned for, hoped for, expected.
This is absolutely brilliant, Sir. The line of reasoning...so clear. Thank you for accurately capturing what I see in front of me all the time. These parents want the right to eradicate the possibility that they will ever have to answer for the control they feel entitled to impose.
Extremely insightful. But I would push back against the idea that people cutting off family members for personal growth would have been incomprehensible to anyone before the last 50 years. People have run away from abusive families for the sake of their individual freedom for much longer than that. I think a lot of people think of abusive family dynamics as a "bug" of capitalist societies when they're really a feature (I don't know enough about pre-capitalist societies globally to speak on that at all). Helicopter parenting, for example, is just another type of abusive parenting from the perspective of the children of helicopter parents (I am a member of several survivor communities, this is where I am drawing my knowledge base from). That said, this is a great piece, one that will help push us towards a holistic analysis of abusive family dynamics and their relation to attacks on schools and education workers.
This is absolutely brilliant, Sir. The line of reasoning...so clear. Thank you for accurately capturing what I see in front of me all the time. These parents want the right to eradicate the possibility that they will ever have to answer for the control they feel entitled to impose.
Extremely insightful. But I would push back against the idea that people cutting off family members for personal growth would have been incomprehensible to anyone before the last 50 years. People have run away from abusive families for the sake of their individual freedom for much longer than that. I think a lot of people think of abusive family dynamics as a "bug" of capitalist societies when they're really a feature (I don't know enough about pre-capitalist societies globally to speak on that at all). Helicopter parenting, for example, is just another type of abusive parenting from the perspective of the children of helicopter parents (I am a member of several survivor communities, this is where I am drawing my knowledge base from). That said, this is a great piece, one that will help push us towards a holistic analysis of abusive family dynamics and their relation to attacks on schools and education workers.