Power

[crystalineskier]

It’s amazing how much of my life is just simple problems in communication. The arguments, the fights, how a parent and a teenager only hear exactly what they want to hear and nothing more. When everyone’s right, there can be no one wrong, but inevitably someone falls into that category, and those people are the Machiavellian misfits. Those

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[nato64]

Your passage depicts almost precisely what I concluded a long time ago only with far more elegant prose and refined complexion. I found myself confounded at times given that most of what you wrote were recurring statements only with differing analogies and variant phrasings. But an imperative point that I picked up on was our innate instinct to endlessly and needlessly replicate how are parents raised us unto our children. I do not agree with what you’re trying to convey about how the cycle of power works. Times have changed in the past and they will in the future. If there is a cycle than I think that it’s is far longer than you think. Take my parents’ parents for example. They were far less strict and stringent than ours are. They saw the world as it truly is. My father has told me stories about how at the age of ten how he, with his mother’s permission, would take a train into downtown San Francisco with his younger bother, stay there until 10 o’clock and no adult there thought of it strange. They saw the world and they didn’t want us to venture out into it. Since they were robbed of their parent’s complete attention and endless support they feel the need to sacrifice everything and anything for us. But using that style of parenting turns into a form of complete control of our lives and the need to overpower us. My theory is that we shall grow up to be a generation of wanting what we never had and we shall give to our children what our parents never even considered to. I know my points are brief and covered many bases without many examples but I do not feel like writing as much as you did.