Our Future is Our History: Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Google Tech Talks
March, 14 2008

ABSTRACT

Adult self-identity forms with great personal sacrifice in the face of chronic violence routinely experienced in childhood via adult socialization practices. Through these practices children internalize the "power structures that shape our lives" which later stand between the individual and his or her own enlightened self-awareness.

Joseph Zornado wanted to elaborate on what his talk Our Future is Our History (at noon) will be about. I've posted his letter at: http://www.corp.google.com/~klea/zornado-letter.html

Speaker: J. Zornado
J. Zornado teaches English at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI. He wrote two books about child-rearing and violence.

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[clarabara11]

That's my dad :)

[nexalacer]

The irony of praising Google and spreading his ideas through the fruits of capitalism, while simultaneously disparaging it.

The insights into the root of cult-ural problems in the family are right on point, but only an academic, whose entire position is paid for through the dominant system of the society, the gun of the state, could miss that capitalism is the absence of dominance and what we have today is simply a slightly evolved version of mercantilism

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[Valefarous]

Its dominance to maintain control of property through use of force. Not necessarily always wrong, but it is dominance. The property is part of your dominion, the stuff over which you dominate. Property isn't intrinsic as a property of things, but a label applied by humans for convenience of a system of transactions. I could decide I owned the contents of your pocket and then use force to get you to give them to me. That would certainly be a misuse of power and an assertion of dominance.

[Alexiytag]

The lector does not understand Christianity. Holy Spirit gives joy here in life inside of a soul.

[nexalacer]

If the owner of a property wants you off of it, it's dominance to ask you to leave, or even to escort you off of it? So if I come crash on your couch, you wouldn't eject me because you're against dominance?

Also, as property owners, people have the right to defend their property in any way that they like, as long as they don't infringe upon another's property. If you as a consumer don't like Pinkerton's product, don't buy it and try to convince others that it's not good.

[advancedatheist]

"Capitalism is the absence of dominance"? Haven't you ever heard a capitalist or one of his management proxies say something like, "You're fired. Clean out your desk, and the company's security guards will escort you off the property." Capitalists have also hired private gun men and even whole armies in the course of doing business. Read the Wikipedia article about the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, for example, a private company that sold the use of armed force as its main product.

[MatthewLeee]

Capitalism has many definitions to many people, it isn't surprising that he missed it.

[potato991]

.. Perhaps I'm not understanding the issues at a deep enough level, maybe this observed (overt) social outcome is intentional, to give the illusion of freedom and choice. Efforts in life extension are a realization of the bait that has been dangled by religion since forever. I often note negative sentiments towards those seeking to extend their lives greatly/indefinitely, as if it's somehow not mainstream. Where would religion be (could it be sustained) without the promise of immortality?

[potato991]

I agree many ideas, but it offers no solutions (at a micro level). We evolved from an environment of

limited resources. Today, abundance, and without encouraging self discipline (in this talk labelled 'repressing'), the result is things such as high incidence of obesity and the 'generation of entitlement' (McMansions, general consumerism). People seem to do what they want with lesser consideration for consequences, be that to themself or others (appear to need more boundaries, discipline).