Unfortunately they are - and so are adults. Children though...."give me a child until he is 7, and I will give you the man'. Jesuit saying. The brain doesn't even begin to reason until around 7, it's all emotion before that, so whatever you input into their brains before then is there for life unless they make enormous effort to change the programming when they are adults.

Was it Ernest Hemingway who believed children should be allowed to develop as they will without adult 'interference'? Set up an island retreat and left them to their own devices. They turned into little monsters and the project had to be abandoned.

You ever read Lord Of The Flies? You betcha that would happen in real life if kids are left to follow their own development. Children are NOT little adults, they need to be taught and yes, trained, to be civilized and considerate of others.

We are NOT naturally civilized and empathic to others. We need to be civilized otherwise we stay at an animalistic level just doing what feels good in the moment.

Hell most infants would be quite happy to sit in their own shit if they weren't trained to use the potty.

Think of 'The Terrible Twos', at that age children learn how to get what they want by crying and throwing tantrums and the world literally revolves around them and their needs. They don't give a fuck about anyone else. It is the epitome of me me me. They also test the parental limits. Good parents are PARENTS not best friends, and train and guide them for adulthood.

Tell a child that age not to put their hand near the fire and they'll look at you slyly and slowly inch their hand to it. Or do it when you are not around if you don't put a guard around it (most people don't have open fires these days so not an issue like it used to be). You can't reason with a child that age ffs. Even chimpanzees know that, and give misbehaving kids a whack. Smacking them to make them comply - for their own safety - is not the same as 'beating' them in case you were confused about that.

But yes, the 'training' and programming they get up to the age of 7 stays with them all their lives, for good or bad. We are going to have a lot of neurotic adults thanks to these masks and lockdowns in their early childhood. They will be frightened of everything and that is not a good trait for any civilization.

Unfortunately they are - and so are adults. Children though...."give me a child until he is 7, and I will give you the man'. Jesuit saying. The brain doesn't even begin to reason until around 7, it's all emotion before that, so whatever you input into their brains before then is there for life unless they make enormous effort to change the programming when they are adults.

Was it Ernest Hemingway who believed children should be allowed to develop as they will without adult 'interference'? Set up an island retreat and left them to their own devices. They turned into little monsters and the project had to be abandoned.

You ever read Lord Of The Flies? You betcha that would happen in real life if kids are left to follow their own development. Children are NOT little adults, they need to be taught and yes, trained, to be civilized and considerate of others.

We are NOT naturally civilized and empathic to others. We need to be civilized otherwise we stay at an animalistic level just doing what feels good in the moment.

Hell most of infants would be quite happy to sit in their own shit if they weren't trained to use the potty.

Think of 'The Terrible Twos', at that age children learn how to get what they want by crying and throwing tantrums and the world literally revolves around them and their needs. They don't give a fuck about anyone else. It is the epitome of me me me. They also test the parental limits. Good parents are PARENTS not best friends, and train and guide them for adulthood.

Tell a child that age not to put their hand near the fire and they'll look at you slyly and slowly inch their hand to it. Or do it when you are not around if you don't put a guard around it (most people don't have open fires these days so not an issue like it used to be). You can't reason with a child that age ffs. Even chimpanzees know that, and give misbehaving kids a whack. Smacking them to make them comply - for their own safety - is not the same as 'beating' them in case you were confused about that.

But yes, the 'training' and programming they get up to the age of 7 stays with them all their lives, for good or bad. We are going to have a lot of neurotic adults thanks to these masks and lockdowns in their early childhood. They will be frightened of everything and that is not a good trait for any civilization.