This may come off as a rant but I'm annoyed by how infantilizing everything in the world is today.
Story time. My wife and I had another child a few months ago. When we take our daughter to her checkups the receptionist hands us this tablet and we have to answer a bunch of questions before we can even go back. It proceeds to ask us questions like:
Do you have any guns in the house? (None of your fucking business)
If so, how are they stored? (Again, none of your fucking business)
Name three things you love about your child (Why am I having to answer open response questions?)
What makes this organization think they have the right to ask me these invasive questions? It feels like everything is this way now. Every company or organization treats you with this infantilizing tone like they have to guide you through life.
I don't remember it being this way when I was younger. Has anyone else noticed this shift?
Hmm idk I think in a healthy society, elders act as pseudo parents to a certain degree.
In a village or shared values community, people help guide each other when you see a problem. For instance if you notice a young kid playing with a can of gasoline alone you would be, once again in an actual community, obliged to step in and "parent" for a moment in some manner.
This stifling 1984 safety at your own expense culture based on zog rules is just crap though.
Then they know me as well as my parents. That's the hard requirement. No one taking an hourly rate meets those qualifications and never will.
I see your point though.
I wouldn't have an issue with paid teachers being in charge of my children at school if they were actually part of my community. But thats the rub, we are expected to allow ideologically opposed randos have authority over us and our kids because they got a teaching cert or are a police man.
Its a fundamental breakdown of society that renders these roles hostile to each other, and not the roles themselves to a certain extent.