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Originally Posted by taxwonk
Man, there's a boatload of bitterness there. Everything going okay with the wife and kids?
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Neither my nor I are helicopter parents of any sort. We both work, and have lives.
I'm not bitter. I simply detest a lot of the modern parenting I see. It appears to me to be centered on a myth that one can remove all risk from a child's life, prevent a child from failure, micromanage the child into a top flight school, and by doing all these things, create an uber-successful kid. This has led to a lot of the cookie cutter, absurdly dull human beings we all have to work among every day. Upper middle class robots.
I like poor people. I like rich people. Both seem interesting in conversation because they either don't give a shit, or don't have the time or energy to do so. They don't view life as a "competition." They aren't striving, or trying to impress you in everything they do. The upper middle class, and these loathsome mothers in particular, have deep seeded pathologies. Comparing your kids to others' kids, being so invested in managing a kid's life you stress yourself out obsessing over it, is mental illness.
Why not call these people out? They're one of many things fucking up the country we ought to discuss fixing.
