The Invisible Counterpoint

ABC News: All Chinese children learn English starting in kindergarten. By the time they are ten they are bilingual! American schools can't teach reading and writing one language very well. Lloyd (Lloyd DeMause, “Learning,” Realpsychohistory, 15 Nov. 2011) - - - - - "ABC News: All Chinese children learn English starting in kindergarten. By 
the time they are 
ten they are bilingual! American schools can't teach reading and writing 
one language very well. 
Lloyd" Lloyd. Your current posts would not make it past your own 1999 - 2005 
filter for *others'* posts. (Rachel Stoltenberg) - - - - - Rachel: Did you see the ABC News report on Chinese children now all 
learning English from the 
beginning of their schooling? It was very detailed, had lots of 
schools reporting, gave 
statistical evidence that was convincing. Your doubt below is unvalidated. Can you
give evidence the ABC News report was wrong? 
 Lloyd (Lloyd DeMause)...

Probably right to ease off of Britney and Lindsay, but your impluse to go after Angelina is sound. I agree with you that though Angelina could readily be characterized as monster-superior, the press has wanted to imagine her more as MOTHER-superior. The reason for this, I think, is that the many of us who were born of mothers who used us as little playthings to ward off depression, and who interpreted our emerging desire to attend to our own needs rather than their own, as treachery, see in Angelina some version of the mother who must be praised and placated -- or else! Did you know that there are cultures which encourage their kids to play with knives. Not for their own good -- Angelina's purported motivation -- but because kids aren't valued all that much once they focus on their own independence. Take New Guinea parenting, for instance: "There are many ways New Guinea parents demonstrate that when the child cannot be used erotically, it is useless. One is that a...

And so, too, did Hillary call her daughter's generation lazy (which got her an earful -- way to go, Chelsea!). Folks, when politicians start calling people lazy, they're entering into a trance-state they won't soon be exiting. The parts of their brain which we're all active when *their own parents* called them "lazy," "no good," and "worthless," are all reved-up again. It's not "you" they're really thinking of -- it's themselves, but nevertheless, owing to a little psychic defence mechanism called "projection," you'll be the one who gets met out all the punishment. If talk/thought like this interests you, please do check out (and maybe even consider thoroughly exploring) Lloyd DeMause's Psychohistory website (and particulary the book he posted there -- The Emotional Life of Nations): http://www.psychohistory.com/ Link: The Tyee