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Rascal Nick Of's avatar

We used to teach children how become decent adults. Now we teach children how to be deranged adults, and we teach adults that they are better off acting like children. A recipe for societal disaster.

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The horrible flip side to this is that the language of consent, as you intimate in the second-to-last paragraph, will not be abandoned but rather repurposed. Much as chivalry as a loose concept long outlived (outlives?) the age of knights and maidens, the language of autonomy and consent will be put on parade whenever convenient long after the Age of Reason has ended.

You'll own nothing, but you'll sign your lease - "you consented to Hate Has No Home Here when you lived here. Don't like it? Build your own municipal housing co-op!" You'll no longer have meaningful parenting rights over your kids, but by subjecting them to public (or, increasingly, private) schooling, you consented to school faculty doing so. ("You consented when you waved them onto the bus? Don't like it? Form your own school district, which is illegal.")

It's one of many tendrils comprising American anarcho-tyranny, that the law of the land is simultaneously "if it feels good, do it" and "by the way, here's what 'feels good' means, there is statute law in every state defining it, and if someone in a position of power wants to feel good with your property or your children, well, you consented to it by living on the earth's surface."

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