just here to proompt mostly
The research that this myth was pulled from is funded by the NHMRC, the health body of the Australian government. The same government that was literally sending people to camps.
Extended childhood means an extended period where ambition and will can be beaten out of the general populace. Why else would research like this be funded?
It wasn’t a warning, it was a vision. Look up who the Huxley family really are.
but I am eager to hear what anyone has to say about it. like really, in concrete terms, what is different that requires us to treat, say a 16 year old differently now than before? Specifically.
The industrial revolution and advances in medicine ended up creating a large amount of surplus humans that the banking and industrial overlords had to pacify in some way or another in order to maintain the stability of their world order. War was their go-to for throwing these people away for a while until nukes were invented and made large-scale war more difficult to conduct without causing irreversible collateral damage. Infantilization seems to be one of the pieces to their solution for preemptively eliminating anyone who might rise up against them. Hordes of people who would otherwise organize and behead their overlords will not do so, if they have learned to be helpless. Evidence available upon request c:
Compulsory schooling has often gone hand and hand with conscription and coerced labor.
Infantilized people are easier to control, since they subconsciously end up seeing authority figures as parents. I maintain that this was intentional from the beginning.
Even if they do that, it will be futile. Here is an explanation of why.
So far new reddit seems easier to scrape than I initially thought c:
Yeah :c
A good reminder for me to reverse-engineer new reddit’s backend once this happens.
lool