Hate

Post #13,983 by Brandioch 10/18/01 1:31:19 PM Reply	Hate No matter how silly the reason. It's been my experience that the people who hate usually have something missing in their lives. Sometimes it is something concrete ("those bastards killed my father"), sometimes it is just a failing in their psyche ("damn Jews run everything so I can't get a decent break"). First off, teach the kids that they're missing something important (envy, jealousy, whatever). Then teach them that they'd have it if it weren't for THOSE OTHERS stopping them.
Post #13,985 by Arkadiy 10/18/01 1:35:11 PM Reply	Re: Hate >>>>>> First off, teach the kids that they're missing something important (envy, jealousy, whatever). Then teach them that they'd have it if it weren't for THOSE OTHERS stopping them. <<<<<<<<< I think the first step is enough most of the time. You need to perform the second only if you want to channel the hate a certain way. If you don't care who gets detested, the object will be picked randomly.
Post #14,014 by Ashton 10/18/01 3:59:46 PM Reply	Song: "You Have to be Carefully Taught" (to Hate) from South Pacific, as I've mentioned before. You HAD to present this song too - if you wanted a license to present this (wildly popular) play. We could minutely disassemble the emotional ingredients of 'pure hatred' I suppose - were we a lot wiser than we are. Obviously every psych, sociology (!) and anthropology course could spend weeks on it. I'll settle for (merely from experience) the song being close enough for government work - to Truth. Kids can "hate mommy" for 13 seconds when she takes away ___ and similar countless examples. As the Jesuits observe, and from hundreds of years experience of intentional inculcation into malleable children: give me a child until age 5, and s/he's ours.. (BTW - aforementioned folk obviously deem it 'moral' to brainwash children, because They of course are teaching Truth, and so.. it isn't really child abuse.) But to carry into a permanent juvenile state (never achieving adulthood or self-knowledge, implicitly) a visceral hatred for Any [thing]: such occurs IMhO only via careful and reinforced inculcation by parents / or one's childhood milieu or both. And ridding oneself of such aberration is akin to deprogramming oneself from: the various sorts of other habits earlier induced by this ~brainwashing technique (religious, political, existential). A.

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