D e v e l o p m e n t a l
A n d T h e P r o g r e s s i v e

P s y c h o l o g y
H u m a n D e c l i n e

! Human development is pretty straightforward; people grow for a while, then die. Whats interesting though, is what happens within an individual as they grow, and begin to die. Just how kids are restrained, and kept from the world they desire. Research on this subject is typically broken up into nine sequential stages of ‘life,’ beginning with pre-natal development, and moving through infancy, the toddler state, early childhood, childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age, and finally moving though observations in old age to gain a holistic scope of the human experience. Instead of approaching each topic in blind succession, this paper will demonstrate human development in a streaming, dynamic, more lifelike manner. ! Super-analytical research type folk start picking apart and studying, like lab-rats, human beings before they are even born. These pre-natal findings are compared along side average results to let the parenting humans know if their child to be will be ‘disabled’, ‘challenged’, a ‘failure to thrive’, or just ‘normal.’ Is it a good thing that we can look a wee bit into the future? Ever seen the movie GATTICA? If you have seen the movie, you’ll probably have a slight headache and swear never to watch it again, but you may also understand that a perverted future of scientifically/sociologically altered humans is to come. Not so much superhumans that can fly, etc. but a society that has weeded out the week, and is composed of only those who will positively succeed. Another video, THX: 1138 may also be of interest. In our society today, we are already effecting the overall composition of our population with our medical decisions. We decide to keep the old around for a long time and draw out their decline, we decide to give kids a better chance of succeeding by immunizing them to various diseases. Sure, at this point it may not seem like much, but it it clear evidence that we are sliding towards an evermore sterile society. ! As kids get a little bigger, and start moving around and exploring on their own, they have a natural tenancy to stray further and further from their parents. This is nature at its finest, it is very good for the children. Most parents in this position will do one of two things. One, they may choose to keep the child out of all situations that they deem dangerous (stimulating). Or two, they may invest in one of those child harnesses with attached leash. This is disgusting. What would be a ‘stage’ in these poor kids lives turns out to be nothing more than another wash of time that passes without them mentally evolving and adapting. Ultimately, the parents end up ruining a perfectly capable kid by overparenting and sheltering the child from the situations and events that it needs to be part of. Why is it so critical that young children are exposed to these situations that their parents may not want them in? Its simple,an eliminatory understanding; children need to learn to adapt within situations. If a child does not figure out that it can not change a situation outside of what they can chance of the situation, than they will likely never do so. Say for instance we are looking at Freddy. Freddy is a four year old who has been pampered all 1200 days of his life. Freddy lives in a big, clean house, with big white walls, a big TV (nicknamed

the babysitter), a home-security system, a tap water filter, and a large, unfenced backyard that leads into the woods. Freddy only knows the first few feet of grass in his backyard, only the necessary distance from the house to the barbecue; why would be even consider being interested in any more of it? After all, Freddy’s mom, Joann, never let Freddy play ‘out-back’ in his first few years. Freddy never discovered the endlessly faceted potential those glooming woods hold. Now, at age four, all Freddy is concerned with is delivering the bigboy Oscar Mayer’s from the grill to his room where he’ll sit in front of the babysitter for hours on end playing the likes of Grand Theft Auto, or Halo. Is this a good thing? Well, it depends on how you look at it. Freddy will grow up into the distinguished Fred, work at an investment firm, someone will title him a ‘success’, he will procreate, he’ll attend a few obligatory dinner parties, collect his dwindling social security, move to an old persons home, and slowly turn into a vegetable. This is fine for the rest of society, they never knew Freddy; and the aging Fred likely never even knew what he was missing; what fundamental parts of his being lie vacant. Ignorance, in this case, really is bliss. So why is poor little Freddy so messed up? Unfortunately, Freddy had almost no part; it was mostly his mothers ‘parenting’. Long ago, when we lived in caves, and the name Thog was more common than Freddy, parents did need to worry about where their little kids were and what they were up to. For instance, what do you think happens when young Thog wanders too far from the dinning cave one evening, and turns into a saber-toothed tiger meal? So this desire to create an impenetrable wall of virtual (or even physical) protection around our kids is hardwired into our brains, and drives us to the insanity (children on leashes) that we see in todays world. So then you may ask: were all ‘protected’ kids back in the day of Thog under-stimulated (or incorrectly stimulated) like those today? The answer is that they were not. In the days of Thog, kids may have been directly sheltered (at a young age) from saber-toothed tigers, etc., but they were not kept away from the residual situations those encounters would have brought about. They were only sheltered from the situations they were not developed enough to be in, and as they developed and became capable, they needed to be in those situations, to get food and other things. Thog, at age ten or so, would have been out hunting for himself, instead of ‘hunting’ for hotdogs in the dimensional backyards of todays world. (Continuing with Freddy) ! ! Freddy moves foreword in life, slowly getting a little bigger, a little more socially wrapped up, and a little further away from himself with each passing day. Freddy wi# go to school, high school, college; he is blind to the fact that he is fully capable of operating on a more primal level. Freddy was never introduced to the idea that he can move in whatever direction he wants. For Freddy, his teen years (like the teen years of many in developed countries) are terrible; he wants to do so many things but is bogged down with the ‘fact’ that he needs to: get educated, get a job, get some money, get a mate, get some kids, get some ‘social security’, get some healthcare, and finally get the unthinkable: death. As you may have noticed, Freddy’s world is all ‘gets’, his life is a constant struggle to obtain more stuff. Freddy will never just be; he will never just sit and stare in rapt awe from the summit of some mountain without thinking about how soon he needs to get that paper work in so be can get good grades to get a good job to get more money to get more enjoyment. It will never occur to Freddy that he can shortcut this thought process. The rigors of Freddy’s education

will be continual, he will succeed in what he sets out to do, as it will be logical and sequential. Freddy will succeed in what he sets out to do, as he is has become an evermore logical and sequential being. Freddy has just set the stage for the remainder of his life. ! Today, there are too many fundamental flaws in the manner that children are raised. This initial conditioning stays with the children as they develop and grow to raise yet another generation of mundane dependents. We are going to end up with a society of capable dependents in a world full of independent possibilities. This clusterfuck of a society to come is going to be bland, boring, and sterile, but will seem safe, stimulating, and otherwise perfect to the operants within; it will mark the downturn of human culture.