No.13
Absolute strictness ruins the drive for independence. It paints a picture of necessary restraint for the pursuit of a supposed perfection. Through rigid discipline, the child loses ingenuity through the acquisition of orderly sociopolitical programming. An incredibly tightly ran ship will always have its dissidents.
However, the same condition is relevant for a lifestyle of reckless liberation. When the child has no single regulation, the child learns contempt for others, and thrives in their own parasitical universe. Without any self-control, the child's personality becomes narcissistic and neurotic. Impulsive, without foundation, whimsical, this child grows into a caricature of social aptitude, instead preferring to exercise its own power-relations with exacting egoism. This conditioned child has became an adult of pervasively parasitical interest.
The role of the parent is to formulate theories of organization and to enforce certain adaptions of behavioral programming.
Traditionalism, as a static theory of organizing, frames the participants into packaged reactionarism, where foreign forms of progression are severely critiqued and held up to a reflecting standard- does X pertain to the qualifications of Y? Solve, isolate, and maintain. Survival is conditioned as that which sustains a pure history.
Progressivism details that subjects ought not to hold onto the traditions of the past as absolute but as flexible and denialist. Standardizations are based off of elitist consensus, whereof the idea of progression is defined by institutionalized power. The sociopolitical makeup of furtherance is defined by the hip, the suave, the coolness of lifestylist appeal. It is not so much as consistency which defines existence inasmuch as it becomes that which is prominently affluent.
Ergo, the child/parent paradigm is certainly one not of simplicity. Neither can such a paradigm be constrained towards specific geopolitical organizing- that is to say, we must refuse the ever-encroaching growth of externalized authority as the dominating power within a family. Family, being construed by a plethora of variables within society, being a fluid concept dependent upon sociopolitical dominance, finds itself in a dilemma: the influence of the external is undoubted, and therefore must be properly constrained, whereas the internal makeup requires a specificity of purpose that cannot be devoid of influential content.
If the family does not provide the impetus for internal change, then external forces will ultimately recondition any programming.