Until then we're expected to lay down our arms and surrender to a system that, in the end, expects us to follow rules it itself doesn't follow, to be truthful even though it itself isn't, and to make no fuss or argument when our basic human rights are stripped away in the name of our own 'safety.'īut these archetypal children embody much more than ballsy reckless freedom. ![]() We harbor lingering childhood resentments against the adults and older kids who symbolically castrated us-teachers, cops, parents, neighbors, bullies-we have a secret stash of inner savagery just waiting to come out, as evinced by the amount of young men with arsenals of automatic weapons, locked and loaded on the off chance civilization crumbles. No matter what the root of it, we secretly thrill to see amok children. The list below rounds up an array of 'wild' children: the ones who either refuse to be inducted into any society which attacks them or else where never invited casual drug users whose word is never believed if it conflicts with even the shadiest of parental authority's second-hand opinions and those form whom no adult society even exists to offer induction or the adult supervising them is her or himself an outcast with no urge to socialize anyone into a world they have rejected. At the other extreme is me, crying in the meat aisle at the carnage no one else seems to see. There are those grown ass adults who only care about themselves and their family, and 'God,' and every other living organism is either food or an enemy. The only equivalent we have today to those initiations is christening, frat and sorority hazing, and circumcision - but they guarantee nothing, and even if empathy is developed it can often be stunted, intentionally or otherwise. Pregnant women are often kept away from the crops and gambling tables in indigenous tribes because children are considered to be demonic (bad luck) until old enough to be initiated into the tribe and thus recognized as actual people. The fact is, until they are socialized, most children are monsters. ![]() So often kids in movies are insufferably nice, or else no-neck monsters with no real awakened soul power, just dumb glazed-eyed obnoxiousness.
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