Darkover
Archangel
- Jul 29, 2021
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All you really have to depend on is yourself this fragile machine, full of limitations, prone to error, pain, and breakdown.
And yet, from the very beginning, you're not self-sufficient. You're entirely dependent on others — your parents or caregivers — to meet your basic
needs: food, protection, comfort, love.
Then, as you grow, you're handed over to the school system. It becomes responsible for shaping you — for educating you, socializing you,
training you with the skills needed to survive in the world. Your mind, your behavior, your understanding of yourself and the world —
all of it is molded by people and structures you had no say in choosing.
We depend on others not just to raise us, but to prepare us for life. But what happens when they fail?
For many, those they rely on — parents, teachers, institutions — do not provide proper care, guidance, or education. They neglect, they abuse,
they misguide, or they simply aren't equipped themselves. And yet, the burden of survival still falls on the individual.
Society still expects the person to function, to succeed, to contribute, to behave as though they were properly prepared — even when they were not.
The system blames the broken for being broken, without acknowledging that it failed to protect or shape them in the first place.
And yet, from the very beginning, you're not self-sufficient. You're entirely dependent on others — your parents or caregivers — to meet your basic
needs: food, protection, comfort, love.
Then, as you grow, you're handed over to the school system. It becomes responsible for shaping you — for educating you, socializing you,
training you with the skills needed to survive in the world. Your mind, your behavior, your understanding of yourself and the world —
all of it is molded by people and structures you had no say in choosing.
We depend on others not just to raise us, but to prepare us for life. But what happens when they fail?
For many, those they rely on — parents, teachers, institutions — do not provide proper care, guidance, or education. They neglect, they abuse,
they misguide, or they simply aren't equipped themselves. And yet, the burden of survival still falls on the individual.
Society still expects the person to function, to succeed, to contribute, to behave as though they were properly prepared — even when they were not.
The system blames the broken for being broken, without acknowledging that it failed to protect or shape them in the first place.
