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%PLENTIFUL COMMERCIAL TOYS 780706
Our supply of plentiful commercial toys has important
cultural consequences. Young people learn at a very early
age that play properly focuses upon toys which are
supplied by adults in finished form. The child is unaware
of who made the toys or how the toys are made. They are
disposable. The toys are seen as a product of the
technocratic society. Play is made possible because of
the toys generated by the technocratic society. The
child's fulfillment is made to be dependent upon an
adequate supply of the technocratic toys. The child
starts to learn very early that fulfillment is dependent
upon possession of a full share of the fruits of the
technocratic society. This is a lesson which is reinforced
many times over---by advertisers as the child becomes
accultrated into the adult consumption patterns of the
technocratic society.
Commercial toys are manufactured to be used in a
limited number of ways. For each toy there are a limited
number of approved uses. The child is taught the proper
way to play with each toy. Specialization is taught---to
generate the need for more toys. The child thus learns
technocratic social conformity---which focuses upon the
fruits of technology. As the child grows up, the toys of
social conformity grow bigger and more complex---involving
more people: bicycles, motorcycles, snowmobiles, cars,
boats, airplanes; houses, lawn mowers, cameras, recreation
centers, home computers; guns, cannons, bombs, missiles,
submarines, ships; organizations, institutions, armies;
etc. The technocratic culture teaches the new member that
the fruits of technology are an essential ingredient to
their security and fulfillment. The new member thus
becomes technologically addicted. Relatively few of the
technological addicts are drug addicts.
In the absence of may commercial toys, children pick
up sticks, stones, bits of grass and plants, and other
natural objects and use their imagination in play which is
not technocratically dominated. They ask their own
questions and formulate their own responses; have their
own feelings. They have no right ways to play with the
natural objects. There are no institutional guidelines to
mold the child into patterns of conformal behavior. The
child learns that there are varied ways of playing---none
of them exclusively RIGHT. The child learns by experience
which ways are personally most satisfying---without having
to fight cultural messages which say which way should be
most satisfying.
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