Tiger Moms

While it is still Politically Incorrect to admit such things in intellectural or political circles, there is probably some deep racial difference in kid's acceptance and reaction to Tiger Momism.

An example of such things:

Back in the late Hippie Days, a lot of young Whites were trying to become Indians. Both Indian and Asian babies accepted the cradle board. White babies simply would not, no matter how hard their parents tried to be Indians. White babies would struggle and scream their heads off until released from the bindings.

This point was noted by both Whites and Indians, and recorded in writings of the time. This is probably unfindable on the Internet, since the Internet is almost totally blind to stuff going on before 1984 - but I was there.

and I appointed Self his escort: the guy had a BS (at least..) in physics!
As we walked under the (injector) Linac, I asked how he thought these physics machines fit-into 'things'..
Don't recall his answer/either inscrutable or ... unmemorable in any case.
At end of tour, he gave me a red rose (evoking awwws/or Ah!s {{couldn't tell}} from his cortege of young students of the esoteric Arts.

But at least these experimenting-yout were Alive, then: alive-enough to see how disgusting was the entire Vietnam matter,
from the bogus gunboat episode invented by LBJ.. until 4-26-2013. They and I marched, in addition to other agitations.
Now NOBODY ..much does more than natter about the dismantling of civil and other liberties / the criminal bankers and yada.

Lotta stuff has flowed down the river since that Inflection Point [mid-1968] when the RFK assassination left us all to the tender mercies of RMN.
Who, asssuredly never heard of.. Æschylus, upon encountering RFK's monumental impromptu comments at a gathering: on the evening of MLK's assassination ... ...
The Negative Slope of Murica's "prospects" remains on-track [-], apparently asymptotic to -[1/0] if probability is linked to any facts since. :-/

Tiger Momism also harks back to Momism
http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Philip_Wylie

..If anyone still recalls Wylie, in the TMI Age. I was apprised of his treatise(s) during post-HS summer, spent in Lewiston, ID (right across river from Clarkston [!] WA)
Wylie was triple-distilled vitriolic. Loved It.
Introduced by a then-thoroughly disenchanted /but laudably educated demi-manager in a local store.
(was pleased to notice that My mother shared none of these character defects--as in {{whew..}}
Momism.. it ain't Gone Away.

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