Children are Innocent - so Why are Adults so F***ed Up?

When a child is born and through the early stages of childhood, they remain in a state of innocence insofar as they are in a state of openness and natural ability to learn and absorb from their environment. But, from the time they are born and placed into an environment they begin, in essence, downloading the patterns of those around them and the structure of the environment instinctually. If you are a high-strung, stressed out parent, this will imprint onto your child. They will become like you.

If you are mean to your child, this will shape the way they see the world, the way they see themselves, and the way they see you.

If you are patient, kind, supportive, and allow them to learn from mistakes in an environment of unconditional love, this will shape their basic nature and character.

If you give them what they need in terms of vocabulary and exposure to ideas and opportunities to challenge themselves and be creative, they will develop into an amazing human being.

But how does one do this in a world that demands the parent fight for their own survival and that of their children?

So far, parents succumb to the pressures of the system and instead of supporting their child to develop into their full potential as a benevolent creator, they mold them into a nasty consumer who's only real purpose is to keep the system as it is.

As a parent, if you truly care, you must become specific. You must enhance your ability to process information and develop a self-awareness that is so keen, that no thought, feeling, or emotion goes unnoticed with you or with another person and thus you are able to direct yourself and support others to direct themselves within the context of what is best for everyone.

If everyone did that, the environment that children grow up in would be supportive of their natural development into a fundamentally good person.

But of course, people will have all kinds of excuses, and yet none of those excuses are valid because they only lead to what is less than best.

Consider when a child plays with a set of blocks. You build the blocks up and the child knocks them down. Do you get angry? Do you attempt to control the child? Do you tell them, "Fine! You build them yourself then!"

The basic, inherent spitefulness of parents towards their children is evident to one who has an effective ability to process information. Parents do not realize it, perhaps, but it is YOU, who destroy the innocence of your child. You have no one else to blame. You are the one putting your child in front of a TV program that is DESIGNED to advertise to them by programming them at a symbolic level to respond to certain stimuli. It is YOU who allow yourself to be manipulated by your own feelings and lie to your child about the existence of Santa Claus and all kinds of other things which you know not to be true or at the very least have NO REAL EVIDENCE for. You allow your own self-deception to determine what your child learns.

If YOU DO NOT CHANGE, the WORLD WILL NEVER CHANGE.

The children are NOT the future. YOU ARE.