The punishment of Strength1.1

An epic narrative examination on the effects of egalitarianism upon certain individuals living in society.

The stoic child part 1

Starting point

The unhappy noisy child is rewarded with attention, the happy stoic child is punished by not getting any.

Consequences

The happy stoic child learns to be noisy, then he learns to be unhappy, no amount of attention is ever enough. He never learns that noise does not always promote attention, quite the opposite in fact, in later life people tend to avoid that sort of person. He learns this, eventually, but by this juncture in his life he is simply too old to change. This realization makes him unhappy and his unhappiness makes him weak, and he loses the remnants of his stoicism. He now never expects anything he does to elicit any response from the world and with the loss of his thick skin this hurts him terribly. He is constantly shaking his head and hanging it in shame. He is the sad little man on the bus, you won’t recognize him, you never even notice him.
This story does not end happily he commits ego death and contrary to the Buddhist view on such things it brings him no happiness, it merely makes suicide more easy a task.
Ego is the bastard in the suite, it holds the whip that disciplines the angry ugly monstrous id. Ego is pride, and pride is the light that you drag yourself towards, ego is the power that drives you out of the pit, without it you would be lost but he was lost long before he cast such things out.
All hurt has its start in childhood. I blame the parents.