Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality
dbtng@eviltoast.org 6 days agoLook, that all sounds very nice for civilized people. But childhood itself is a creation of civilization. Childhood didn’t exist until we had the leisure to allow it. And now civilization has progressed to the point where children don’t really ever have to grow up or assume care of themselves and others. Ya see em sleeping in tents on the corner. Still 12. No bills, no cares. Can you spare a dollar?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
childhood is something all complex animals have, playing is how we learn to do things needed to survive.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 4 days ago
As far as I can recall, I was never a ‘child’. I was a smaller person with my own motivations and drives. Childhood, as we regard it, with its mystical properties is a myth.