More on Consumerism

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Clarissa

May 11, 2016

Traumatized people buy more. They medicate their psychological wounds with stuff. This is why liquid capital facilitates the creation of individuals who are traumatized from the cradle. Within the consumerist logic of “everyone who can afford a pet poodle deserves to have one”, infants are dragged from one continent to another, deprived of their names and histories, stuck into liquid family arrangements of 3 mommies and an MIA daddy, and so forth. They are guaranteed to buy like their lives depend on it when they grow up, which is all that matters.

No, this is not an anti-adoption post. It’s an anti-consumerist post. Non-consumerist adoptions that preserve a child’s name, history and original family are a wonderful thing.

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Barbara

May 11, 2016

Not on topic but I have been thinking about the post about encouraging very young learners to make up their own spelling, and that you heard about this through someone involved in an expensive private school.

As several commentators (including me) pointed out, improvising spelling can be a short stage in a beginner writer’s life. In most cases, not a lot of attention need be given, except perhaps to judiciously and gently make corrections. I think most children would want to know the “grownup” way to write.

But to make it a point of pride, for the subtext to be, Our young writers have such important things to say, they must express themselves, worrying about spelling correctly might even be beneath them — perhaps that is the beginning of the sense of privilege those parents are paying to have installed in their children?

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