Children make the best soldiers. Why do you think that is? It’s obvious. They’re the most capable of following blindly. Children — prior to adolescence or teenage years — lack what cognitive psychologist researcher Jean Piaget called formal operations. Formal operations refers to the capacity for more advanced abstract thought. It takes an adolescent — or older — to subscribe to an ideology, because an ideology involves, by definition, a highly abstract set of concepts. Freedom, Justice, or Revolution all refer to concepts — regardless of their content — that only an adolescent is capable of accepting or rejecting. Children, on the other hand, are much more compliant. They don’t yet have the full conceptual capacity to be otherwise, at least in most cases. What does it say about an ideology that its proponents require the blind obedience, honest ignorance and/or lack of intellectual development of children in order to sustain itself? Dr. Hurd
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:12:50 +0000
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