Abstract
The wonder of #human culture is that anyone manages to grow
up with anything like sense and sanity. Consider the fact that most
people start life with the handicap of parental love. Of all forms of
emotionally induced #blindness, this is the blindest, and most of us
are lucky enough to get a double dose. As with others who love
[1], parents are blind because they want to be, and for nearly two
decades, the child is helpless to escape the best efforts of his parents
to distort his selfimage and sense of importance [2]. Whatever
limitations culture may have, it certainly is efficient at transmitting
stupidity from one generation to the next (as well as developing it
anew). Children receive a basic lesson from their parents and other
adults who gain some peculiar pleasure in denying reality to them.
It is quite common to say to a small child, “What a big boy you are”
[3]. Statements contrary to the obvious may be more comforting
than the truth-”My, what a #scrawny little runt you are!”— and have
the added advantage of preparing the child for the adult world in
which accuracy is too commonly sacrificed to diplomacy.
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