This is unequivocal truth!

The whole culture collaborates in artificially extending childhood, primarily through the school system and restrictions on labor. ... We have completely isolated young people from adults and created a peer culture. We stick them in school and keep them from working in any meaningful way, and if they do something wrong we put them in a pen with other "children."

This is one of many aspects of how sense of reality is terribly blurred in western society. There are also very sinister roots: it is suitable for some forces (political, religious, commercial) that people are growing up late artificially (with all accompanied problems), because this weakens ...

This is unequivocal truth!

The whole culture collaborates in artificially extending childhood, primarily through the school system and restrictions on labor. ... We have completely isolated young people from adults and created a peer culture. We stick them in school and keep them from working in any meaningful way, and if they do something wrong we put them in a pen with other "children."

This is one of many aspects of how sense of reality is terribly blurred in western society. There are also very sinister roots: it is suitable for some forces (political, religious, commercial) that people are growing up late artificially (with all accompanied problems), because this weakens their personal integrity and makes them more liable for further manipulations in course of selfish interests.

Excellent article. It expresses a lot of thoughts I had as a teenager growing up in the 60s & I can truly say I resented it at the time. "Let's see, I'm not old enough, to smoke, drink or vote but I can be forced against my inner morale nature to to murder, compromise by doing something else for the military(You don't have to pull the trigger just drive the getaway car/ambulance.), go to prison or flee the country." I have an 11 year old boy I'm raising & I must say, we have a very good relationship going. I've tried very hard to let him know he is intelligent & his thoughts & feelings matter to me. When we have disagreements I'll often ask him, "How can we make this a win win situation?...

Excellent article. It expresses a lot of thoughts I had as a teenager growing up in the 60s & I can truly say I resented it at the time. "Let's see, I'm not old enough, to smoke, drink or vote but I can be forced against my inner morale nature to to murder, compromise by doing something else for the military(You don't have to pull the trigger just drive the getaway car/ambulance.), go to prison or flee the country." I have an 11 year old boy I'm raising & I must say, we have a very good relationship going. I've tried very hard to let him know he is intelligent & his thoughts & feelings matter to me. When we have disagreements I'll often ask him, "How can we make this a win win situation?" & somehow we find some middle ground we're both happy with. He's told me more than once how his friends(Adults too) have said how lucky he is to have & do so many things with his dad & when he expresses that, I let him know that he has played a part in creating the kind of world he desires for himself. Empower all children I say, trash none.