I can understand people who don't personally want to have children. I can't understand people who have contempt for children, and (typically) contempt for the human legacy they make salient. It's a scary thing when a person's self-loathing is too big to fit their own skin alone
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I think it may be a generational thing. It was already a pretty common sentiment when I was in college — and I went to a midwestern state school. Pairs well with the belief that human beings are toxic to the planet, or that human civilization is a fundamentally rapacious endeavor
Teachers too, I'm sure, although I think that's an even darker thing: if you find yourself wrapped up in constraints that force you to control, mistreat, and neglect other people, it becomes very useful to think of them as bad, even disgusting
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I think a lot of the clearly terrible stuff that happens in classrooms — blatant favoritism, adults all but calling little kids "stupid," perfectly normal boys being made to internalize a sense of irredeemable criminality — can be attributed to prison guard coping mechanisms
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An idea emerging from the unholy alliance between modern political wackiness & the mental health establishment is that kids unavoidably make everyone around them less happy, and that any perceived sense of meaning in parenting is a psychological defense mechanismpic.twitter.com/7jGh3my2fJ
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Contempt for your job is common, for your boss even more so. But contempt for customers, particularly when they are children, is particularly dark.
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Nobody really gets this — it's the third rail for *everyone* — but teachers *are* part-time substitute parents. During the school year, kids are spending about a third of their waking hours in the care of these people. They have no choice but to try to trust them & please them.
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