Raising Hell

No child has ever been raised right. All of us have abusive childhoods in our background. And, by objective standards, almost always it’s severe.

The only major exception in modern society is when a kid’s upbringing is, instead, horrific and nightmarish. And certainly it’s doubtful whether space aliens ever adopted a human baby and then raised him in a proper and healthy manner.

Children should be brought up rationally. Their social and learning environment should be one of pure reason, including all the adults and kids they interact with.

Their books and videos should be strictly rational as well. Even their physical bedroom, home, school, play areas, and surroundings should be relatively understandable and coherently organized. And so too their childhood challenges, tests, experiences, and adventures.

Beyond systematic rationality, kids should be treated with the corollaries of that, which includes justice, morality, and merit. Dealing with people and their environment, good behavior should be rewarded and bad behavior punished – and all proportionately.

At the least, the child should have the perception that justice is the societal standard, and that his parents, teachers, friends, and others are at least attempting to reward and punish appropriately and fairly – as reality itself almost always does. Supervising guardian adults, authority figures, and others may lack insight and wisdom at times, and they may not always see enough of reality to treat him equitably, but if the kid knows that they’re indeed trying, then he likely won’t suffer much.

Children also need to be raised in a place which is physically safe from predators and bodily dangers, and which appears to be so to the kid.

A great deal of parental love, understanding, empathy, and emotional and psycho-spiritual support is also important in upbringing – especially when the child is young. As he ages, the massive unconditional love of his family, friends, and others should be gradually replaced with conditional love and support, based upon justice. The kid needs to gradually learn to earn his parents’ affection and caring behavior, just as he also learns to justly and properly return it.

But even if a child today is somewhat raised right – or partially so – he still has huge problems to face. One obvious one is that his powerful and important social world, outside his family and home, is nowadays highly irrational and unjust. Some of this will hit and hurt him directly, of course. And a good deal more he will have to observe in the suffering of others, such as what happens to his family, friends, colleagues, and multitudinous innocents.

Essentially everyone a kid meets in today’s irrational, illiberal, Dark Age culture is either a monster, or a victim of them, or both. Everyone he meets is warped and perverted. All are tortured and demented. Not one is healthy or normal.

So life today is pretty much an unending freak show for any relatively rational, decent, healthy, normal child. It’s like living in Superman’s Bizarro World or on The Planet of the Apes. Just about everyone he interacts with is a sideshow geek and sad, sick twist. For a normal kid – if any ever emerges – Earth today is like living in an unescapable, criminal, insane asylum. The weirdos and wack-jobs – the deviants and demons – are forever coming out of the woodwork to get him.

So the rational, healthy, secure, happy, justice-raised, morality- and merit-loving child has all of that to deal with. Life is quite tough, even for him. Still...it’s better than being raised irrationally and unjustly by ignorant, incompetent, morally-low parents.