Children in Cages: A Defense for the Bully

 "The world and life's too big to pass for a dream,
And I do these wild things in sheer despite,
And play the fooleries you catch me at, 
In pure rage!" 
-Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning

 Watch this brutal video of a nine year old beating up his fellow captives at a daycare center in Vicksburg, MS: 

 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d1d_1343621818&use_old_player=0&safe_mode=off

 This observed behaviour does not bode well for the future of this child, or those around him. He is clearly a deeply troubled youth. However, many of us avoid the makeshift zoo exhibits and sea aquariums that house captive polar bears and dolphins because we are astutely aware of the wicked abuse this inflicts on these creatures. Many of us forgo eating animals partly for the tortures inflicted on them in the process, like the pigs in pens no bigger than the perimeters of their pork-filled bodies so that they cannot move.

Cruel zoo exhibit: a polar bear in the humid Chicago summer; wearing an unnatural green.

But few of us blink an eye to see a fully rational creature, a human being, pent up in the confines of a building, most likely after only recently having been sprung from the prison camp of public school where he was whispered at by numerous women in polka dot sweaters or effeminate men in wrinkle-free khakis to "be nice" all day long, with, most likely, no physical energy expenditure, and a half hour of recess that he spent indoors as punishment because he could not sit still during class while staring at a smart board in a stuffy classroom with the shades drawn while learning math problems that not even his uncle who is an engineer could make sense of.

This nine year old is probably more intelligent and driven than others of his age group, which is why he is reacting with rage while being caged. Another interview mentions that he takes medication.

Children, especially boys, need to use pocket knives, jump from tall precipices, dig in the ground, plant things, read Robert Louis Stevenson while leaning against a tree, fight each other, and yell. But instead, we attempt to drug them into submission and keep them in cages because the anti-culture, of which things like feminism and usury-slavery has created, does not allow for such freedom.

Children should be testing their wills, not blindly obeying their superiors so that they get a Slurpee.

 Daycare is the algae green polar bear in the humid Chicago summer; daycare is a killer whale in a fishbowl.

I won't formally surmise about the probable crap diet of factory-prepared food filled with excitotoxins and refined sugars that will make a mouse attack a cat in the lab that this boy might have been fed, or his probable not so Listen, Son, relationship with his parents, but I know that if these things are not the case, he is an anomaly.

This is child abuse. Think of what people are capable of doing. It is much greater than the dogs that we bemoan for having to waste their lives on the end of a chain ....outdoors. Think of young Mozart or Shirley Temple trapped in a puritanical daycare center where workers who do not care as much about your child as you....should, are paid to keep peace and quiet reigning supreme at all costs. Peace and quiet at the expense of music, peace and quiet at the expense of tap dancing, animal crackers in your soup, curls, and all that. 

Sure, Mozart was possibly a "trained monkey," and Shirley an overworked child-star, but at least their talents were cultivated, at least someone was paying attention to them. 

Behind the electric wire.

Many of the internet commentators reacting to the video of this nine year old bully state that they would "beat that boy up" if he were their child. And we wonder why cruel dimwits like Cesar Millan and his ideas of "peace" at the expense of freedom and personality, became so popular. We cannot see the forest for the trees. Yes, the boy is past the age of reason, yes, he is responsible for what he does, and yes, because he is past the age of reason he is past being spanked with positive benefit. What this nine year old needs is to be sprung from his prison and taught charity and respect in the real world. And this, unfortunately is a Catch-22 conclusion in a world that has become a giant zoo exhibit even for the adults thanks to organized naturalism.

But so many people sacrifice their time and money to save and rehabilitate animals, which is noble in itself. We could at least do that for our own children. I am sure they'd relinquish the Slurpees for ....freeeeeeedom!

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