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When children misbehave in certain ways, parents often send them to their room for punishment. When adults misbehave in certain ways, the mommy-daddy-nanny state sends them to cages for punishment. These cages are allegedly there for our rehabilitation in a prison system.
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As a society, we are not dealing with the problem through a collective pressure in our community or society to have people change, to understand why they need to change, and to even first teach them why and how to act rightly in the first place. Morality, philosophy, and psychology are not taught as core foundational education in our lives.
The people in our communities and societies that have engaged in wrong behavior or wrong actions (whether it's minor or major), have been shaped by their own experiences and environmental factors that led to their actions. This includes ourselves int he overall way things operate. We let this all continue.
Some people are in prison not for anything serious, as many nonviolent "crimes" are deluded "laws" created by control freaks who want to prevent people from doing certain things that don't harm others.
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We aren't addressing the failures of our own community or society. We aren't preventing further confusion and wrong behavior from emerging in successive generations of minds that get shaped, formed and conditioned by our society. We are choosing to deny a responsibility at our own hands, and instead send people to their rooms called prison, where the issue is never actually resolved, and rehabilitation never actually takes place with any real help from the community itself. We just put them aside in some locked up cage and forget about it.
The education to raise us properly in understanding is not being done.
Harder criminals who have a lower state of consciousness create a concentration of the sick and poisoned consciousnesses as a way of life for others to emulate. There is no real rehabilitation of consciousness to change behavior in prison society.
Some people can seclude themselves from the general population and do their own thing, just as happens in regular society where some people don't fit into the superficiality or falsity of the society around them.
A child is unraised and lacks awareness. This can apply to adult bodies as well. Physical age or maturity doesn't necessarily correlate with some measure of "mental age" or maturity. Consciousness can be unraised and unaware at any physical age, doing foolish things and wrong-actions towards others or themselves.
We get frustrated with children and their inability to rationalize at times, so they get a time-out in their room or elsewhere. Children need to learn from those around them, the environment, their society, peers, and that shapes them into who they are. This is how children are raised from a lower order thinking to higher order thinking and processing of reality. That's not to say time-outs are always used effectively or responsibly by adults either.
Raising consciousness is important throughout life. In society, people are being shaped with what is around them in their families, homes, communities, cities, media, etc. If people turn out as a reflection of wrong-actions, then they were not properly raised in consciousness to higher order thinking about things to affect their behavior. Yes, there are some small percentage of people who have undeveloped emotional capacities despite not having had trauma to create it. But that's not what I'm talking about.
Children haven't developed yet to be able to be reasoned with fully. It takes time to learn how to think better. There is a justification for a time-out if required. But the issue needs to be addressed as well afterwards, with reason.
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If children are not raised properly, with understanding through explanation and reason, then they are not going to understand the reason for not doing certain things. They will do wrong-actions from a lack of understanding due to being improperly raised in life, and their consciousness is not raised as a result. We can learn from our mistakes and change, if we are willing to admit them and admit wrong.
I had to raise myself in real knowledge that matters more than the standard basics of our outcome-based indoctrination centers. Many other people have done the same. We "wake up" and realize we've been lied to in so many ways, although unintentional by our parents, friends, and society due to everyone being so trapped in it, it's still a lie we accepted that kept us unaware of the reality around us, kept us asleep, unconscious, unraised. Then we see we are wrong, admit we are wrong, and choose to find out what is going on instead of not learning about things.
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So true, I learned all this stuff after school. I really had to seek this these ideas out for myself and only because I was able to reach across the Internet was I able to adjust my views.
I think you have found the best quote in the entire movie (The Matrix)! Are people ready to hear it though? How many of your readers actually believe what morpheus is describing is 95% of our population (for real)? Lol .. Not easy to believe. Larken Rose sites a study though predicting that we need only 10% for major changes to take place. I do like getting the early bird bonus.
Thanks for your hard work here.. I really enjoy what you are doing.
It's exactly the same with me. I never felt satisfied with most of the political stuff you learn at school, but it took years for me to find the needed philosophical foundation to reject so many things we are taught are good/necessary for society.
Regarding The Matrix, I think there is no single best quote. The film is just too good. Every time you can discover something new.
Hehe, yeah, spot on, that quote says a lot. People need to clean and open their windows of perception ;) Thanks for the feedback and support :)
Wow! That is a very inspiring comment.
I truly, truly agree with this. I work as a Special Education teacher and deal with all sorts of behavior throughout the week. I work with little ones which make it even more difficult at times. However, if a student of mine does something that requires a time out. Then they are given a time out. Or if they have to miss out on some type of reward then they miss out on it.
First and foremost, no matter what the situation I always debrief with the student and do my best to explain to them why the received the consequence and what we can do better next time. Or how we can better handle the situation. If it the idea is hard for them to grasp then we can roll play the situation, etc.
The main thing is that a child should have to be given an explanation for the punishment. Not just the punishment itself. Children will learn very little from only punishment.
Congrats, great job on setting an example! Thank you for the feedback! :)
Excellent article touching on so many points needed to be reflected upon in our societies. Thank you for sharing, I especially love the way you tied up the end of it all with your great choices of quotes. All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
no victim= no crime. If we only imprisoned those who committed actual crimes we could tear down at least half the prisons- unfortunately it's become and industry- a war on PEOPLE not drugs.
In many ways I agree with you! The development of consciousness in children is largely dependent on their parents and the society in which they live ...
All conscription is equally evil, as it is the use of force rather than mind.
How true it is. upvoted, resteemed
Very good thought provoking post. Thank you!
Very good post, no to grounding !
Wonderful post.....i am fascinated with society and how children are fed into a mature world. The comparisons to prison is interesting. Ignorance is one of the key problems in the world.