When Parents Stop Thinking, Society Starts Rotting. Reverence or Replication?
When Obedience Replaces Thinking We are taught from childhood that parents and elders deserve unquestioned reverence. Respect is framed as obedience, silence as virtue, and conformity as character. But here’s the uncomfortable truth we rarely say out loud: Not everything inherited is wisdom. Some things are just unexamined habits , passed down like heirlooms nobody dares to open. If someone teaches you to be stupid instead of curious , greedy instead of just , selfish instead of humane , casteist or racist instead of rational , or to blindly believe an ideology instead of questioning it , then what they are passing on is not values—it is contagion . Parenting vs Programming True parenting prepares a child for reality. False parenting prepares a child to defend illusions . There is a crucial difference between: Teaching what to think Teaching how to think The first creates followers. The second creates humans. When children are discouraged from asking “why,” when doubt is punished, an...
