Vicious Cycles

Rush infants, babies, and toddlers
To reach, Not master on their own accord
Milestones and independence
By projecting our deficits and unrealized dreams
Our images of who we wished we were
By overcompensating
How we were not raised

Override their innate
Instincts and intuitions
Rather than
Connecting and understanding them
As they already are

Take away opportunities
To master sound judgments and critical thinking
To build freethinking individuals
Who are resilient and authentic
Against tyranny

Take away opportunities
To cultivate real connected compassion
Healthy competitions
That elevate each other’s excellence,
Innate self-confidence and self-reliance
Instead of superiority and domination
And manufactured self-esteem

Rob them of
Intrinsic motivations and internal rewards
With authoritarian external rewards and punishments
Condition them
While elevate authoritarians’
Status and esteem

When they become adults
We infantilise them
And they grow to expect
To be infantilised

No resilience
No critical thinking
No stoicism
No freethinkers
No consequential thinking
No adherence to indisputable facts and evidence
Avoid sound debates
Favour rationalization over rationality
No morality or ethics

Be Warriors in the Garden
To stand up
Effectively and tactfully against

Oppression
Tyranny
Victimhood mindset
Superiority
Control
Power
Trauma

Instead…

Oppression to oppress oppression
Tyranny to tyrannize tyranny
Pathological compassion to victimize
Superiority to dominate superiority
Control others to replace self-control
Power over others in place of personal power
Incite trauma to further traumatize

Repetitive and cyclical
Will we ever learn from history
The long human history
And personal short history

Do you dare
To drum up courage and prepare for pain
To heed to indisputable facts and evidence
To humbleness
Of our real world, in reality, and
Build a network of antifragile, indefatigable humanity
To change this tide?