There was an article in the New York Times about homeschool. To those not particularly interested in homeschooling I’m sure it offered some insight. Unfortunately that insight was in to abuse and trauma. It was written by a person who was not homeschooled. What that person had experienced in their use was abusive neglect disguised as homeschooling, or at least homeschooling used as an excuse to justify abuse and neglect. Their parents might not have thought they were abusive, simply protecting them from the world, but they would be wrong, obviously.

We live in a world of billions, in a nation of hundreds of millions.

And in the immortal worlds of Harvey Pecar, average people are dumb, man.

The systems we have put in place are designed for…people who need a bit more help.

The systems we have put in place as a society are there to prevent the most obscene abuse of the degenerate glutton. And even at that, it fails.

Consider Co-sleeping.

A friend of ours who gave birth in a hospital was coerced into signing a document saying that they would not sleep in the same bed as their child. This is because, according to the hospital, co-sleeping is dangerous. Many children die from being smothered in improper beds!

This is true.

It is true because many new mothers are drug and alcohol addicts who go to sleep inebriated. This intoxication is how they manage to smother their own children without noticing. Lacking the presence of drugs or alcohol death from co-sleeping basically does not exist. Yet, we must operate as though we are all that way.

Before the Second World War they began to produce standardized clothing and vehicles. Given the growing field of statistics, they measured countless people and found averages, producing clothing to fit that average person. Nothing fit, the vehicles were almost unusable.

Such is the situation across virtually all experiences.

We create systems that make people anxious, put up barriers to those wishing to do good, while simultaneously failing in every meaningful way to curtail the abuse of those truly bent on perpetrating it.


I don’t have an answer to this problem. All I can say, and all that I know, is that I am sick of being measured with this group of sick people. I have my own illness to attend to, and all it’s doing is confusing the medicine.