by Martin Anton Smith martinantonsmith@gmail.com
The Journey Of The Master’s Apprentice Part 1 : Crack addicts & trust fund babies have more in common than you think (bad parents)” (A Serialized Essay)
You can shore yourself up slowly & surely for a decade or longer. You can definitely do that. Upon doing so you begin to climb out of that whatever that form of randomized cultural abyss you’ve been programmed by as a child and a teenager. Most of us came from various shades of cultural abysses.
This is especially those of us who have lived ‘Downunder’ in NZ or Australia – both countries still suffer from our difficult pioneer/penal colony beginnings. The ongoing generalized culture is the amorphous blob that bears the scars of these difficult beginnings and also transmits them into the future. This is why it is so hard for a society (or an economy) to ‘re-invent itself’. The amorphous cultural blob has it’s own interests. You
The child of the crack addicts & the child of wealthy on the hill are different, but I contend it is still a matter of degree, rather than form. The child’s crack addict parents were addicted to temporary chemical highs while the child of the rich-on-the-hill parent is addicted to the imperfect feeling – also a ‘chemical high’ – the random ‘neurotransmitter hit’ that money, & it’s close cousins called status & security can give.
The crack addict vs the money & status addict adult share biologically all the same ‘brain machine’ of the same species – Homo Sapiens. The difference, as I was saying is one of degree in terms of programming – morays – culture, which has rules for which ‘objects’ of the world (tangible & intangible) get focused on.
The child of the ‘crack addict family’ at root is neglected in a similar way to the child of the “CEO dad & the Lawyer mother who sent their kid to boarding school” – In both families they minimized the true social needs of the child. If those children met at a bar & talked of childhood neglect, they’d most likely see eye to eye. There are many false divisions in this world’s journey.
(Part two to follow soon)
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