Just Because You're Paranoid

Posted By TFMo on March 3, 2010

Birth to Preschool

Because your mother chose to bed a knave, she alone is raising you. She may have some support from her parents, but most likely the help they can offer is minimal. Your mother returns to Big Nanny Government for help. Food stamps, unemployment checks, and free medical care for you, all from the pockets of those who were more careful in their decisions than her. But that’s all right; she is a Glorious Single Mother, praised and encouraged by the media, lauded as an unsung hero, even though they’re singing pretty loudly. Never mind that more than 70% of all the criminals currently residing in prisons across our country are the result of single motherhood. Never mind that more and more children of single mothers are less and less successful in life, and tend to repeat their mother’s foolish decisions.

And you get to grow up seeing your mother accept charity day by day. You grow on government cheese. From here, you do not have a good example of sound decision-making. Nor do you have a foundation in solid work ethic; your mother is collecting a check from the government instead of working; if you play your cards right, you can too!

If your mother does work, it is probably only part-time, and rarely in a job she likes. You get to grow up hearing your mother curse her job, which teaches you that work is bad. Much better to just collect that check. Meanwhile, you spend more time in front of the television than in your mother’s lap.

Once upon a time, shows like Sesame Street were fairly innocuous; they taught letters and reading, numbers, and a bit of geography, so your mother thinks nothing of setting you down to watch that and similar shows. What your mother doesn’t realize is that these shows have since been co-opted by politicians. You watch Sesame Street and see them make a parody of Fox News. You’re not old enough to understand it, but one thing is clear, Fox News is bad. That little nugget will stay in your mind as you get older.

Other shows are worse. Your mother thinks that because it’s the Disney Channel, the shows will just be simple entertainment. Mickey and Minnie, and Donald up to his usual crabby behavior. She doesn’t realize that many of the new shows, both cartoon and live-action, depict the heroes being thoroughly obnoxious and utterly disrespectful to their parents and teachers. Rarely are they punished for it. And the laugh track added in teaches the child that this behavior will be rewarded. Taking your cue from these shows, you begin to misbehave. You aren’t really trying to cause problems; you’re trying to make Mommy laugh, like those people on TV.

Your mother doesn’t understand why you are suddenly misbehaving and acting so strangely. Someone will eventually suggest that maybe there is something wrong with you. Immediately, your mother will behave differently around you. You get confused, why isn’t Mommy laughing like she’s supposed to? Your behavior does not improve. Chances are, your mother will then take you to a child psychologist, once again paid for by the government. Chances are, that doctor will prescribe a medicine that you do not need and will not help. Some of these medicines will CAUSE the problems they are supposed to cure. Some of those medicines can cause so deep a depression in children that kids as young as NINE commit suicide.

But again, for the sake of the narrative, let’s not go further down that path. We will simply leave it that you have learned the wrong behaviors from these shows. You have also begun your indoctrination into left-wing politics. Nick Jr, the most innocent of all the so-called children’s channels, does not run product advertisements. Most of what the show on their commercial breaks are ads for their other shows, and little learning games and songs. But one particular advertisement has crept in.

The channel’s mascot, Moose A. Moose, is now preaching the wonders of recycling. There is, of course, nothing wrong with wanting the world to be a cleaner place, but not all recycling is good for the environment. To date, the only recycling that does more good than harm is recycling metal. The processes and chemicals required to break down plastic and paper are far more harmful to the environment than simply leaving the plastic and paper in a landfill.

Towards the end of this indoctrination, it is discovered that Zee, Moose’s little blue bird friend, put one of Moose’s collector cups in with the recycling. At first Moose is upset, but then he realizes that he never really uses the cup anyway. Moose then gives it to the Recycling Bear, who says he was needing it for his collection.

Cute, but illogical. Moose gives up his cup because he doesn’t use it, and gives it to someone else…who will not use it. There was no point to the exchange; the cup is still not being used, and Moose is guilted into giving his property away.

You aren’t yet old enough to understand the many problems with this, but that’s all right. You will still remember it, which is exactly the point. It’s all a part of the softening process to get your mind ready for school.

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