"The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis."
(Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism 429)
Childhood innocence is a cultural designation for which there is no evidence--sure children exist inside a different developmental stage from adults, but there is no reason to believe they are any more "innocent," "pure," or "angelic" as a result than your average adult given their own developmental state. Another is the purely cultural detestation for "pedophilia," where ignorance has produced in the mainstream its 1 to 1 correlation with "child molestation." Such a 1 to 1 correlation has no evidence, and even runs counter to evidence suggesting that not all pedophiles necessarily commit the crimes of child molestation and possession of child porn. But put these two words together in the same sentence, "innocent child" and "pedophile," and all analysis stops. If you contest the jargon, you're in support of the perpetrator. In the past, such an ability to think beyond the words would doom your soul to hellfire, these days, it dooms our society to ignorance and illusion servitude.
Go to Justin.tv on the social page section and you will find middle age men perving on young teenage girls asking them for their emails and telling them to get naked on cam. That site is full of pedophiles and they do nothing to stop it. Young girls showing feet and bra to old men.
ReplyDeleteAnon, here's the kicker about an example like that (which I don't support and will get to that later)... for *every* instance of a lone pervert getting their kicks at the sight of a kid, there are at least *twenty* instances of legal child abuse, child exploitation, and other means of suppression on kids within the system itself that if not for their cultural acceptability, would be just as hideous as how you describe Justin.tv.
ReplyDeleteI don't accept child predation whether it's done by the types that inhabit the online world in their free time or the even more shadowy types who go to work digging through children's dresser draws (literally and figuratively) in order to "sniff" out a potential market to make money off.
Secondly, the whole "young teen" thing is a bit redundant, don't you think?
Lastly, I don't know if what you've written is an endorsement of Justin.tv or a plea for its destruction, but I don't support the site because I don't believe in second-hand contact with kids or anyone for that matter. I believe our primary concerns should be face to face, hand in hand. It's the very problem of society that we've grown so apart from one another to begin with that being a child's friend in life has become a crime unto itself.