In a consumer society mesmerized by a shop-till-you-drop ethos, we have become alienated and pass down that alienation to our children. We are blind to the existential pain of meaninglessness lying behind our jobs, careers, and making a living for the sake of financial gains, or, in this day and age, survival. Meanwhile, our children are being educated in standardized systems designed as training for the same corporate world we are enslaved in while at home we as families are saturated and mesmerized in the violence and sexuality of game boys and televisions designed specifically to hypnotize an adult into a mindless trance while indoctrinating a child into a consumer/militaristic culture.
To bring the effects of this alienation home, watch the following movie on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdkNn3Ei-Lg
Know that this child is not abnormal for our culture.
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