THE SUBJECT

OF

CHILDREN

 

 

A Commentary

 

By

 

David A. Archer

02/15/1968

 

 

 

 

 

11/17/2006

 

 

It wasn't that long ago when I could still see myself as someday raising my own children.  Of course, this was before becoming the victim of a rather extreme shift in the political atmosphere, and subsequently exposed to several more ill facets of our modern society, having gained momentum within said shift.

 

I was very much exposed to aspects of modern society which exist almost purely within the realm of desperation.  More so manufactured desperation in some attempt of making themselves feel important.  But even that is beside the point in regard to my more recent decision to abstain from the idea and prospect of raising children.

 

I am of the mind that I would still sire children in the right situation, but to be subject to the grotesque areas within society that are deemed "familial" in our modern day, is simply out of the question for me. 

 

I cannot see putting effort into raising a child that is really nothing more than a political ass puppet in the modern atmosphere.

 

That really isn't fair to the child.

 

Further within this form of desperation is/are several social facets which make actually raising healthy, happy children almost impossible... this even beyond the incessant corporate whores demanding that their product be dubbed as most acceptable in such false modern situations.  It even extends beyond the various forms of blackmail pertaining to things such as insurance, medication and legal representation, which have again seemingly become the "standard" within business.

 

A rather peculiar area within this area of desperation is really no more complicated than being other people's ex-wives.  More so some mental disorder that tends to tell them they are suddenly qualified to make demands about other people's home lives.  Even if it is that they are much more than poor examples of domestication and skills within such areas themselves.

 

For some reason they feel as though they are of some qualification... and the corporations promote that mental instability in their own best interest.   The fact that no matter how "stupid" and "failed" the life of a child is in having been raised inefficiently - then always yields a "mother" (and most times ex-wife) that can in no way see such, is very much one of the root causes of this social desperation.  Not to mention the obvious presence of disfunctions regarding the masculine example as well... most times of and within the direct male/female relation.

 

It is far beyond denial in the fact that such posturing is actually promoted (especially being only in the interest of being seen as correct)- even the conflict pertaining to it is widely promoted in the interest to maintain aggregation.  Further, once it is that these "successful" examples of independent women find some support through such false coos as are of the modern media for instance - they then tend to find themselves involved with what amounts to nothing more than some attempt to exercise their own embittered and failed lives - most times in passing judgment on others. 

 

Regardless of how failed are/were their (our) own attempts at domestic life (marriage/children), for some reason, through those other influences, they seem to find inspiration to impart their own bitterness on the potential happiness of others.

 

I cannot see raising a healthy child in such atmospheres and do hope that my personal experience is rather a unique example of having been near a somewhat substantial political shift.  I just cannot see exposing a child/children to the sort of mental torment that runs rampant in the "ex-wives"/ "ex-husbands" category within society.

 

Then of course come all of the peripheral aspects to having actually had some potential within my own existence.  Just from what I have experienced on my own person from having such potential... I cannot see exposing a child to the sort of desperate actions and ploys as are seemingly present in and around any sort of perceived "promise" in any career field.  Then further something which fanned the flames, was the fact that my domestic skills far out shined those of the "ex-wives" category, which then of course became yet another form of resentment and further reason I would in no way expose a young life to such instabilities.

 

Just because I didn't adhere to the label on the t.v. dinner stating that it was healthy and nutritious... and therefore meant that those raising their children almost exclusively on such food stuffs (especially within the ex-wives category) somehow where grand examples of parenting - I found another reason to become the victim of such a pseudo-political movement.

 

Sad really.... but as I have stated in other pieces, I can see the benefit in a larger sense of the direction such movement is heading.. and truly would like to promote the saturation of such attitudes.  Most reasonably from my own perspective, because they are not only tolerated but promoted as standard and norm.....

 

Even in the incredible reality bending transgressions they are of, exist within and continue to promote.

 

Fiction has nothing on this area of desperation.

 

I cannot see ruining the life(s) of a child/children before they have even begun.  Especially at the hands of supposed governing which seeks only to insure similar dysfunctions itself.

 

Aren't there already enough crack babies? 

 

Is it that all children should be crack babies to perhaps present the opportunity for those failed and bitter lives to someday vindicate themselves in looking to a standard and normality they helped to promote... and then seeing their own failures as "not so bad?"

 

None for me thanks.  I don't mind adding to the stupidity I suppose, given that it is quickly becoming a social standard.... but please don't expect me to participate in such blatant inefficient damage to even humanity itself.. through imparting remnants of my own - constrained existence within such a dynamic - onto what will amount to desperate, dysfunctional pharmaceutical junkies.

 

It just isn't fair to them.  Regardless of how their mothers and fathers may want to feel about themselves because of a commercial.

 

So it is that I have made such a decision as to abstain from such activities as raising children someday.  Until such time as I again am not kept from the means with which to keep such desperation at bay... I cannot see such a decision changing.

 

I simply will not be a party to raising children so immersed in such caustic ploys... exposed to heightened and amplified forms of mental illness that have become accepted as some standard within modern existence.

 

It would be better just to promote the dumbing down of our society... the purposeful propagation of ignorance... than in any way to attempt child rearing within such desperation.

 

I am simply not personally equipped at this time, to accommodate such atmosphere and reasoning.