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“I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.”
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“The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.”
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“If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.”
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“That doesn’t sound consistent with the dismissive word used when we argue that we “just watch something for entertainment”. Typically, people use the phrase as a shorthand for “me not think when me watch stuff”. In other words, we’re actually arguing that we want to engage media and narrative without entertaining it in our minds. The argument is rendered backward, foolish by our own word usage, showing we honestly have no idea what we’re saying. True entertainment means exactly the opposite.”
― Cinemagogue: Reclaiming Entertainment and Navigating Narrative for the Myths and Mirrors they were Meant to Be
― Cinemagogue: Reclaiming Entertainment and Navigating Narrative for the Myths and Mirrors they were Meant to Be
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