something that got clarified in a DM conversation just now: the vast majority of the harm i think school does to children is completely invisible. it's lost creativity and energy that should be there but isn't. you have to have a sense of what's possible to feel its absence
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the little of parenting culture that i've seen in the US is so much about protecting children from big legible dramatic dangers like being physically abused and so little about protecting them from being hollow shells, hungry ghosts, the living dead
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.@danlistensto's thread from a couple weeks ago on this subject is very relevant. you have to know that it's possible for people to not be this fucked up to mourn how fucked up they are. that, to me, is one of the big takeaways from transformative work
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even then it only cares about physical abuse *by strangers* (which is of course the vast minority of physical abuse)
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There's a real challenge in nurturing dreams and imaginination while also developing the self discipline necessary to endure hard work and drudgery
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