When I see young mothers pushing a pram with a crying baby in it, I want to scream "pick up your baby!!" at them. I believe the horrible "let them cry it out" advice is one of the factors that has led to the epidemic of mental illness in young people today. What a betrayal to deal with in your first weeks of life.
Mendehlson is brilliantly insightful. He was not caught up in the rhetoric of modern medicine, which insinuates itself into our lives while only sometimes delivering on the inflated promises it makes. We recently made a major move and shed much of our library in the process, but this gem remains on our bookshelf.
Very good article... During "covid" I saw the media, tool of the government, used to try and break up the family if members did not conform to experimental medication... I can honestly say 10 seconds of this video is all you need to see how appalling the propanda was, and how little "they" care about the family... and how they will happily destroy families over their narrative.
The family has always been the crucial and most foundational component of a community. It has always been recognized as that sacred space where all life begins and where you return after completing community service.
This aspect has been transfigured in a highly perverted way in war/action movies. The man of the house goes out to kill the bad guys, mostly his mental and emotional state during the mission is more like that of an immature kid, but he and his comrades create a very special bond that will overcome all adversities. This is the bond stronger than anything else we, poor civilians, know. These professional killers create a killing family, ready to do literally anything for the other and for all of them. You will not find a shadow of this bond in regular families. Maybe this is why the hero has a photo of her “beloved”, an amulet to give him some point of reference to protect him from madness and unresolved inner conflicts. A bit strange mental condition for highly trained saviors of the universe, but who knows, maybe they tested it, and it sells best. When the hero kills enough to feel satisfied, as proven by his commanders calling him back, he returns to his woman of dreams… and, after a few romantic scenes, starts making a hell in his own house. His home base family doesn’t understand him - why should they, they do not kill for living… Only his killer friends understand him and come out of the blue to save him - by offering another special mission. Come with us, you are best, we won’t manage it without you. And the hero recalls this uplifting feeling of being one with his true family - killers like him. Then he has to find an alibi to his on-and-off woman and family to go away with his real family. Saving the world or preventing bad guys from coming to your kitchen will do. The higher good. Sacrifice for others.
How can our hero do any good if he doesn’t know what family means?... For him, his home base family is just a bus stop on his way to harm other families. In a justified way, you know, by killing the men of these bad families.
This shallow scenario is repeated over and over again in movies. The young watch them and become fascinated, and want to be like him. And they will be. And their girlfriends, wives, children, and parents, back at home base, will be suffering a lot more than our savior killer - but you won’t find many movies showing this side of the story. Is it because this hidden story is a fully-fledged war on the family at the home base?
The girlfriend/wife/children left behind. No problem. Leaving a killer friend behind? Unthinkable.
Movies are not made for entertainment. They create and present ready-made models, patterns of behavior, lifestyles to adore, worship and copy-paste at the home base. With so many feature movies presenting a full-color dramatized model of a family broken beyond any repair, to the tune of hypnotic music which bypasses all defense mechanisms of the mind - how would you expect to have a healthy community?
When my grandsons were born, the ridiculous clown doctor told my daughter that grandparents were a dangerous source of infection for the child and told her I needed to get all kinds of vaccines to be “safe” for the baby. I declined. The babies were fine.
The modern expectation that all women must get a job or have a profession outside the home, in addition to all the responsibilities of child rearing and homemaking, is another strain on marriage and on happy and healthy families.
Everyone must work for "The Man" (paycheck). Even the husbands pressure the overwhelmed wives trying to keep it together with the numerous and unending duties at home. Looked down on by everyone, the mother who chooses to prioritize the rearing of new human beings must gather enormous courage and strength to resist the pressures that aim to dissuade the goal of motherhood as its own honorable and certainly worthy profession.
The common question asked in our contemporary times by those one meets for the first time "hello, what do you do?" is never to be responded with "I am a mother, a homemaker" (who works harder than others can imagine, without a paycheck and with little respect from practically anyone), rearing a number of children to be good people and citizens.
It is understood that men have been deprecated for the past 20 years by TV and movie writers, but women have been under assault since the 1960's with the newly readily available birth control and abortion. Women should provide and enjoy sexual pleasure at will, without the inconvenience on conception.
The significance of the value of our bodies and our relationships with each other must be regained. We must honor our bodies and our social contracts so that we can thrive as human beings were intended to under proper order of respect and love.
The toilet training advice you are giving is quite terrible. You are risking the child being ostracized and ridiculed by their classmates or teachers for not being potty trained. At worst, the school could simply reject the childs attendance, also a trauma for all parties. Very bad advice, indeed. Setting a child up for failure is not good. Throwing a child in the water to teach them to swim is an analogy.
When I see young mothers pushing a pram with a crying baby in it, I want to scream "pick up your baby!!" at them. I believe the horrible "let them cry it out" advice is one of the factors that has led to the epidemic of mental illness in young people today. What a betrayal to deal with in your first weeks of life.
Mendehlson is brilliantly insightful. He was not caught up in the rhetoric of modern medicine, which insinuates itself into our lives while only sometimes delivering on the inflated promises it makes. We recently made a major move and shed much of our library in the process, but this gem remains on our bookshelf.
Very good article... During "covid" I saw the media, tool of the government, used to try and break up the family if members did not conform to experimental medication... I can honestly say 10 seconds of this video is all you need to see how appalling the propanda was, and how little "they" care about the family... and how they will happily destroy families over their narrative.
https://youtu.be/xj8DeDaSOGo?si=UbJ1BiiYS9nx_9da
Thanks Steve...excellent reminder about how much they care about the family with that video. I still have a visceral reaction when I watch that stuff.
Me too... Most have forgotten, but it's there for all to see... It was pure hate propaganda...
This. When I stop weeping, I will read it more throroughly...but I know people, ordinary people,
cannot deal with sickness and death anymore as part of life so we outsource it to our terrible
cost - and sometimes benefit.
The family has always been the crucial and most foundational component of a community. It has always been recognized as that sacred space where all life begins and where you return after completing community service.
This aspect has been transfigured in a highly perverted way in war/action movies. The man of the house goes out to kill the bad guys, mostly his mental and emotional state during the mission is more like that of an immature kid, but he and his comrades create a very special bond that will overcome all adversities. This is the bond stronger than anything else we, poor civilians, know. These professional killers create a killing family, ready to do literally anything for the other and for all of them. You will not find a shadow of this bond in regular families. Maybe this is why the hero has a photo of her “beloved”, an amulet to give him some point of reference to protect him from madness and unresolved inner conflicts. A bit strange mental condition for highly trained saviors of the universe, but who knows, maybe they tested it, and it sells best. When the hero kills enough to feel satisfied, as proven by his commanders calling him back, he returns to his woman of dreams… and, after a few romantic scenes, starts making a hell in his own house. His home base family doesn’t understand him - why should they, they do not kill for living… Only his killer friends understand him and come out of the blue to save him - by offering another special mission. Come with us, you are best, we won’t manage it without you. And the hero recalls this uplifting feeling of being one with his true family - killers like him. Then he has to find an alibi to his on-and-off woman and family to go away with his real family. Saving the world or preventing bad guys from coming to your kitchen will do. The higher good. Sacrifice for others.
How can our hero do any good if he doesn’t know what family means?... For him, his home base family is just a bus stop on his way to harm other families. In a justified way, you know, by killing the men of these bad families.
This shallow scenario is repeated over and over again in movies. The young watch them and become fascinated, and want to be like him. And they will be. And their girlfriends, wives, children, and parents, back at home base, will be suffering a lot more than our savior killer - but you won’t find many movies showing this side of the story. Is it because this hidden story is a fully-fledged war on the family at the home base?
The girlfriend/wife/children left behind. No problem. Leaving a killer friend behind? Unthinkable.
Movies are not made for entertainment. They create and present ready-made models, patterns of behavior, lifestyles to adore, worship and copy-paste at the home base. With so many feature movies presenting a full-color dramatized model of a family broken beyond any repair, to the tune of hypnotic music which bypasses all defense mechanisms of the mind - how would you expect to have a healthy community?
Insightful as always, thanks Dan.
When my grandsons were born, the ridiculous clown doctor told my daughter that grandparents were a dangerous source of infection for the child and told her I needed to get all kinds of vaccines to be “safe” for the baby. I declined. The babies were fine.
Wow. What an amazing piece of writing. Thank you.
Agee
The modern expectation that all women must get a job or have a profession outside the home, in addition to all the responsibilities of child rearing and homemaking, is another strain on marriage and on happy and healthy families.
Everyone must work for "The Man" (paycheck). Even the husbands pressure the overwhelmed wives trying to keep it together with the numerous and unending duties at home. Looked down on by everyone, the mother who chooses to prioritize the rearing of new human beings must gather enormous courage and strength to resist the pressures that aim to dissuade the goal of motherhood as its own honorable and certainly worthy profession.
The common question asked in our contemporary times by those one meets for the first time "hello, what do you do?" is never to be responded with "I am a mother, a homemaker" (who works harder than others can imagine, without a paycheck and with little respect from practically anyone), rearing a number of children to be good people and citizens.
It is understood that men have been deprecated for the past 20 years by TV and movie writers, but women have been under assault since the 1960's with the newly readily available birth control and abortion. Women should provide and enjoy sexual pleasure at will, without the inconvenience on conception.
The significance of the value of our bodies and our relationships with each other must be regained. We must honor our bodies and our social contracts so that we can thrive as human beings were intended to under proper order of respect and love.
The toilet training advice you are giving is quite terrible. You are risking the child being ostracized and ridiculed by their classmates or teachers for not being potty trained. At worst, the school could simply reject the childs attendance, also a trauma for all parties. Very bad advice, indeed. Setting a child up for failure is not good. Throwing a child in the water to teach them to swim is an analogy.