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Originally Posted by freebeard
I've seen single parent families (and once two-parent) families where the child though persistence and copious free time has taken control of their adult minder. Second circuit stuff.
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That's more to do with a combination of intelligence and competence (and desperation). I was 19 when I discovered to my horror that my dad didn't just lack invulnerability, but was intellectually and physically defeatable by me who was a nobody.
I stumbled onto that accidentally. I've got no ambition to conquer for the sake of conquering. All of the levels are uninteresting to me.
Since then, despite my dense ability to observe, I have come to realize my dad has always sacrificed, always offered the best, and never complained about it. I was about 25 when I realized my dad gave me the best cut of meat, and he always has.
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I'd seen the beginnings of the 'long march through the institutions' when I was in college. The grade schools weren't as infiltrated as they are today, but it had already started.
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I was insulated for the most part. 80 kids in grades 1-6 (one teacher per 2 grades), so I knew everyone and their parents. The principal spanked me. The liberal teachers respected reality, and even indoctrinated us children daily with the pledge of allegiance to the Unites States of America.
Reason was accepted throughout most of grade school, though leftist concepts of power being associated with victimization and weakness with victimhood was becoming commonplace. I turned an incident where I shirked a mandatory pep rally so I could go to work early, walking through a woman trying to restrain my leaving, from a punishment for failing to abide by authority, to accepting an written apology from an authority for physically intimidating a minor, even though she was the one crying. I mean, my 16 year old mind never thought that BS would fly, but it was all I could contrive in the moment.
In junior college, the leftist administration would direct campus security to remove me from the "free speech zone" for advocating for the Republican party. There was 1 high ranking administrator that set things right. In retrospect, I'm ashamed to have advocated for the party at that time, though no party represents liberty, and therefore all is a false dichotomy. I do not regret offending administration for speaking freely in the free speech zone.