The Punishment of Strength 1.3

An epic narrative exploration of the effects of egalitarianism on certain individuals living within society.

The Stoic child part 3

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 remains stoic but does not keep his happiness for long, no more than anyone could. Then his stoicism ebbs away replaced by extreme introversion and resentment, he resents his parents and all of his contemporaries regardless of what ever personal pain they may have, he is unable to notice such things and why would he?; as he grows up these feelings grow and deepen he resents not just his parents and contemporaries but society and everyone in it regardless of whatever personal pain any such member may or may not have, he has never noticed such things, and why would he have? The resentment burns ever deeper, his stoicism grows ever weaker, and resentment turns to rage without the temperance of a super ego. He talks to few people and unable to make connections has no outlets, he has little stoicism left but its enough to keep him bottled up.Such people often explode and if you care a jot for the poor beggar’s mental health you’ll pray that this happens sooner rather than later and that he learns quickly to channel his violence against deserving targets. This is from that perspective the best outcome second best is that he develops a taste for violence and employs it whenever angry, worst and most likely of all outcomes is that he never does explode, society is happiest with this outcome, it is least disruptive and produces the particular neurosis that causes the neurotic to become a great cog in the wheel of the economy. It can therefore be seen that it is not within societies best interests to encourage this particular aspect of good parenting.

The punishment of strength 1.2

An epic narrative exploration of the effects of egalitarianism on certain individuals living within society.

The Stoic child part 2

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 becomes more and more quite, he regresses into himself and becomes an ego without desire, boundaries without anyone to keep, a cage without a prisoner; Ego becomes permanent super ego, he becomes a robot of society.... in other words, a door mat.
People upon examining this case cannot say for sure whether this condition is caused by nature, or lack of nurture. I would not want to use the term catatonic.

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.