I’d rather be living paycheck to paycheck, uncertain of my next meal, but able to think my own thoughts and live my own life, than to EVER go back to being a slave for someone simply because they were related to me.
I think you might need therapy. It’s not normal to compare your parents to fascist slave-drivers. It’s not normal to describe your childhood as enslavement. It’s certainly not normal to read an all too common musing such as “remember the good ol’ days when we didn’t have as many responsibilities and everything felt simpler” and go off on all these bizarro tangents about fascism, freedom of thought, and slavery. I hope you can work through whatever issues are setting you off.
I understand your instinct that this is a one-off situation.
But this is common behavior in the U.S.
As I explained in another comment, this is socially enforced as well as through laws.
Typically impoverished families will be coerced into this behavior, and wealthier families whole-heartedly believe in this behavior.
Childhood isn’t Freedom here. It’s the years of your life in which the law requires you to be under surveillance, indoctrinated, and strictly following dress code and acceptable haircuts.
Not less than 2 months ago, a kid was punished and moved into a reformatory school because he committed the ungodly crime of having an unapproved haircut.
Is it so deranged?
I’d rather be living paycheck to paycheck, uncertain of my next meal, but able to think my own thoughts and live my own life, than to EVER go back to being a slave for someone simply because they were related to me.
I think you might need therapy. It’s not normal to compare your parents to fascist slave-drivers. It’s not normal to describe your childhood as enslavement. It’s certainly not normal to read an all too common musing such as “remember the good ol’ days when we didn’t have as many responsibilities and everything felt simpler” and go off on all these bizarro tangents about fascism, freedom of thought, and slavery. I hope you can work through whatever issues are setting you off.
I understand your instinct that this is a one-off situation.
But this is common behavior in the U.S.
As I explained in another comment, this is socially enforced as well as through laws.
Typically impoverished families will be coerced into this behavior, and wealthier families whole-heartedly believe in this behavior.
Childhood isn’t Freedom here. It’s the years of your life in which the law requires you to be under surveillance, indoctrinated, and strictly following dress code and acceptable haircuts.
Not less than 2 months ago, a kid was punished and moved into a reformatory school because he committed the ungodly crime of having an unapproved haircut.