From Time-Outs to Caging Adults
When children misbehave in certain ways, parents often send them to their room for punishment. When adults misbehave in certain ways, the mommy-daddy-nanny state sends them to cages for punishment. These cages are allegedly there for our rehabilitation in a prison system.
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Social Responsibility
As a society, we are not dealing with the problems around us through a collective pressure in our community or society to have people change. To have them understand why they need to change, and to even first teach them why and how to act rightly in the first place. Morality, philosophy, and psychology are not taught as core foundational education in our lives.
The people in our communities and societies that have engaged in wrong behavior or wrong actions (whether it's minor or major), have been shaped by their own experiences and environmental factors that led to their actions. This includes ourselves in the overall way things operate. We let this all continue.
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Some people are in prison, but not for anything serious, as many nonviolent "crimes" are deluded "laws" created by control freaks who want to prevent people from doing certain things that don't harm others. Just look at how the drug war targeted people for smoking cannabis.
Community Failure
We aren't addressing the failures of our own community or society. We aren't preventing further confusion and wrong behavior from emerging in successive generations of minds that get shaped, formed and conditioned by our society. We are choosing to deny a responsibility at our own hands, and instead send people to their rooms called prison, where the issue is never actually resolved, and rehabilitation never actually takes place with any real help from the community itself. We just put them aside in some locked up cage and forget about it.
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The education to raise us properly in understanding is not being done.
False Rehabilitation
Harder criminals who have a lower state of consciousness create a concentration of the sick and poisoned consciousnesses as a way of life for others to emulate. There is no real rehabilitation of consciousness to change behavior in prison society.
Some people can seclude themselves from the general population and do their own thing, just as happens in regular society where some people don't fit into the superficiality or falsity of the society around them.
Unraised Consciousness
A child is unraised and lacks awareness. This can apply to adult bodies as well. Physical age or maturity doesn't necessarily correlate with some measure of "mental age" or maturity. Consciousness can be unraised and unaware at any physical age, doing foolish things and wrong-actions towards others or themselves.
We get frustrated with children and their inability to be reasonable at times, so they get a time-out in their room or elsewhere. Children need to learn from those around them, the environment, their society, peers, and that shapes them into who they are. This is how children are raised from a lower order thinking to higher order thinking and processing of reality. That's not to say time-outs are always used effectively or responsibly by adults either.
Raising Consciousness
Raising consciousness is important throughout life. In society, people are being shaped with what is around them in their families, homes, communities, cities, media, etc. If people turn out as a reflection of wrong-actions, then they were not properly raised in consciousness to higher order thinking about things to affect their behavior. Yes, there are some small percentage of people who have undeveloped emotional capacities and can't self-correct their behavior through reflecting on how they and others are part of a larger whole. But that's not what I'm talking about. There are psychopaths who can't be changed and are broken models of what a human being is supposed to be.
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Children haven't developed yet to be able to be reasoned with fully. It takes time to learn how to think better. There is a justification for a time-out if required. But the issue needs to be addressed as well afterwards, with reason. A child, teen or adult needs to be explained why something was wrong so they understand why there is a consequence or punishment.
If children are not raised properly, with understanding through explanation and reason, then they are not going to understand the reason for not doing certain things. They will do wrong-actions from a lack of understanding due to being improperly raised in life, and their consciousness is not raised as a result. We can learn from our mistakes and change, if we are willing to admit them and admit wrong.
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I had to raise myself in real knowledge that matters more than the standard basics of our outcome-based indoctrination centers. Many other people have done the same. We "wake up" and realize we've been lied to in so many ways -- although unintentional -- by our parents, friends, and society due to everyone being so trapped in it. It's still a lie we accepted that kept us unaware of the reality around us, kept us asleep, unconscious, unraised. Then we see we are wrong, admit we are wrong, and choose to find out what is going on instead of not learning about things.
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If we raise people with an understanding or right and wrong, and don't do wrongs to them, then our society will reflect this. There will be less wrong behavior behavior. This would require many unlawful "laws" be removed as well, so that wrongs and injustices are not perpetrated on people in a society that would falsely criminalize them.
Prison doesn't correct people properly, despite the deception of being called "correctional facilities". It often just introduces people into more corrupt behavior, from the other inmates to the guards. We can raise people better and bring back the responsibility to the community, rather than throwing people into a cage because we failed raise each other up in moral comprehension.
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It’s so true, and frustrating that society is unwilling to make necessary changes to educate people of better ways to deal with people. Society is stuck in the past and unwilling to change
Yes, easily stuck in old ways and keeping to repeat the same mistakes... social infrastructure is cemented in the way of life and takes so much more energy to remove than it did to make it.
"We "wake up" and realize we've been lied to in so many ways -- although unintentional -- by our parents, friends, and society due to everyone being so trapped in it." There is a hazard there too. Sometimes this seems to "break" people in various ways. Some double down on the lie and drive themselves crazy because they can never reconcile reality with their view of it. Others can go too far in the other direction and trade one falsehood for another because they begin to believe anything that opposes the official narratives which is flawed. The reason those lies have such an effect is because they contain a fair amount to truth to mask themselves. If one throws everything out, they disregard that bit of truth along with the fabrications.
I think you touch a bit when you say "It takes time to learn how to think better." I agree and would argue that a fair amount of people need to be taught how to think about things, how to weigh them, and compare them to our understanding of reality. Even that is not a perfect solution but it may help with the adverse reactions that occur when one begins to see through the lies.
Yup, I call that polarized doubt and hyper-skepticism. Flat earthers went that way ;)
Nice I like the terms. Haha yeah some people get pretty crazy with stuff. I would never do this, but I often wonder how many people would buy a completely fabricated conspiracy theory that I made up. I am sure I would get a couple if I made it sensational enough lol.
When a person has not had a family responsible for teaching principles of life, they may end up making mistakes and go to prison for some time. It is assumed that at that time, the prison system should work for that person to overcome their mistakes and come out better prepared to enter society, but unfortunately, and especially in Latin American countries that does not happen that way. Rather the jails become schools of crime so that most people fail to overcome their problems with justice.
Yes, prison is the worst way to make someone get better... there is no teaching. Schools of crime is absolutely right!
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I never considered this.
I do think there are more nuances to this topic, but in general, I think this goes into the right direction and that does leave a sour taste in my mouth.
When it comes to prisons, being send there is supposed to serve re socialization. I think that German prisons do a somewhat decendish job regarding this. American prisons don't as far as I know.
What I am thinking about is time spend in school right now. "Detention" in the way it has been depicted in american media never existed here for me, but we had something similar for a while back when I was in middle school. The concept never really got taken seriously by most people my age back then, though.
The more I think about this the more factors I think of that become important. Hm.
Yeah, detention isn't taken seriously, so people can just do what they were doing. People are willing to pay a price when they want to do things they shouldn't.
In many cases, yes. And sometimes, they are not but do it anyway.
Yes, we all are living in an society but at the end of the day we are individuals and every individual learns different aspects from life and that's the cycle of life means, observing and adopting that behaviour.
If children see all the time an environment where parents are fighting with each other and always an abusive environment then for sure children will not going to hold the path of wisdom and peace because there mind is terrorised from the young age only and all these aspects come out as negative when they grow up.
Unnecessary restrictions can also create wrong environments because sometimes children can tend to some activities actually which is not bad but still they restricted to do that and this not an good practice because that will create their world so small.
So, no matter what, excluding some cases, maximum are due to the observation of society and home and they mould in that way and yes, Rehabilitation just became joke because inturn we can see that many cases where people ran away from the Rehabilitation and in my opinion there is no Rehabilitation which can transform the human nature because wherever you see everyone is forcing to do and transformation through force can be more disastrous.
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I always think prison is not a solution to someone's behavioral problem. It only controls their physical movement from doing what the society think is bad but the evil thoughts and guilt of those who committed crime or wrongdoing are still deep rooted in their hearts.
Yup, good point, it's external physical control, but no development of psychological self-control.
Most parents ground their children without making the child understand what he/she has done wrong, and i believe this lack of parent-child communication only escalates the behavior of the child imminently. I also strongly agree that prison doesn't rehabilitate inmates instead just punishes them. Nowadays criminals are no more scared of going to prison infact they see it as an opportunity to solidify their street credibility. Criminals aren't born evil (except for some psychopaths), what the judiciary system needs is to find a way to get to the root cause of such erratic behaviour and eliminate it.
You got it right. Parents fail, the society fails, and we cater to free-lunches for criminals who don't care to change.
If we raise people with an understanding or right and wrong, and don't do wrongs to them, then our society will reflect this.
This is the solution to most human problems.
Yup, stop violating people and it all gets 90% better ;) Government is one of those who do wrongs to innocent and make things worse.
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It has been the male who teaches children about structure. About right and wrong.
Is it no wonder that 70% of the inmates are from fatherless homes?
Woman have forced men out of the homes, and out of the schools. And what we end up with is people who question right and wrong. Saying that such things are just made up bullshit. Saying that there is no good or evil, just whatever people choose at the time.
This ends with the destruction of society.
So, will we enforce marriages?
Or always send children to be raised by the father from 5 till 13?
Or will we change the schools system to demand that enough father figure presence is there in a child's life?
Or will we do as many tribes have done? When the boy turns 5, the men steal him. He now lives with the men.
Great points. It's been obvious for a while that our societies are breaking down. Too much governance and power is concentrated in the hands of too few. The societal engineers are working hard to destroy the family unit by isolating the divine masculine from the sacred feminine, thus splitting apart the divine union of male/female balance that has formed the cornerstone of mankind's existence. What's left after that is supression of the sacred feminine creative energy. Both polarities of male and female are under attack. Masculinity is being forced out and seeds of confusion are being sown in the upcoming generations where they're being told boys can be girls and girls can be boys. Or you can pretend to be one for part of the day and the other for the rest of the time. You see it clear as day in the prison system today where women pretend to be men by adopting the "stud" persona as a survival mechanism.
I harken back to the wisdom of Tyler Durden in Fight Club;
"What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women."
What we need is for men to return to the old ways and go back to doing what men are naturally inclined to do. When I come across posts that approach this subject matter, I always love to refer people to the work of Jack Donovan- his books, essays, etc. I would begin with this:
"The best revolt against a culture of weakness is to create a culture of strength."
Jack Donovan
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