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%ALIENATION FROM CHILDHOOD MEMORIES+790519
%INTEGRITY THOU CURIOSITY AWE WONDER ADULT 790519
The adult experience is all too often one of
alienation form childhood. Too often coping in the adult
world is experienced as giving up the values of childhood
in order to survive. The personal world of childhood's
integrity in a world of friendly I-Thou relationships
fades into misty memories which are dominated by the
realistic world of the objective analysis of what it takes
to get ahead and survive in a harshly competitive world.
The simple curiosity, awe, and wonder of childhoods'
approach to new experiences---is replaced by playing the
game of calculating the expected responses and reacting as
expected, rather than responding as a person with
integrity. Instead of growing through the developmental
stages of personal relationships---people interact in much
the same way that elementary particle interact---according
to eternal rules which depend upon unchanging particulate
characteristics which are also unchanging. Each person
becomes fixed in character and is fit into the social
machine wherever that fixed character best fits, or is
rejected as unfit, as the case may be.
Much of the adult experience is a thoughtless attempt
to regain the wonderful feelings of childhood---of I-Thou
relationships, personal integrity, curiosity, awe, wonder,
affection, sensory activity, etc. Too often the attempts
are in an attempts are in an analytic objective mode---
with is impotent in the face of the felt needs. Failure
intensifies the essential needs. Resource consumptive
efforts alienate the adults from their vital ecosystem and
intensify the feelings of need. Fancy houses, cars,
clothing, electronic entertainment, vacations, etc. do not
satisfy the root yearnings which are occasioned by the
alienation from childhood. Adults all too often fall even
further into frantic resource---consumptive efforts to
succeed---in competitive efforts to get ahead, in going
back to their lost childhoods.
Parents may help future generations avoid this trap
by pointing it out to their children, so that their
children at least have a chance of stepping around the
trap, rather than falling into it as so many people have
done in the past.
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