Human--All Too Human

Children serve a paradoxical purpose as a repository for adult judgments. They are idolized in the ways that don't pose an immediate threat to adult society and infantilized in the ways that do. Every behavior of theirs that serves to uphold adult authority at the subjection of the minor seems to have it's own holy day by comparison to any behavior that serves to make the child an autonomous entity. Children are both angels when it comes to expressing any traits adults find themselves incapable of possessing, and no better than animals when it comes to expressing traits any way similar to human nature.

Adults crave to regain the what they perceive the child has in abundance--youth, optimism, freedom, contentment, love--and even seek out children like faucets that they may drink from their nourishment and be made fulfilled themselves. No doubt driving themselves to the brink of war and personal tragedy to protect this natural resource within their own. At the same time, they perceive children hazardous--as poison containers for their own projections and evil spirits the world over, such that only by subjecting the so-called innocent can they be protected from the corrupted nature of the adult.

In reality, children are no more super-human and no more sub-human than the average adult. They reveal their natural human weaknesses, fallacious thinking, and fallibility as do their masters, in developmentally relative ways. Every adult who has tried to drain the so-called positive energy tap that the child represents for them into their own has walked away inevitably worse for the ware--either walked over or enmeshed in the fruitless passion of child worship to their own rational destruction. There is no youth to be regained other than in the adult mind. Likewise, every adult who has tied down this small human animal to save them from their influence has done the opposite and inflicted the child with even more of their so-called "evil spirits" than the child would have picked up from the air.

Kids, too, have their own faulted projections of adults--just as human as human.