Most of these are indications of extreme intelligence, much more so than of behaviour problems. It's easy to see how a parent who isn't that smart could find it tempting to see a gifted child as something entirely new. To them the notion that a child can develop a moral and intellectual system at an extremely young age would seem impossible. It's not, but it's an understandable thing for a parent to reach out for.

One way to raise crappy children is to teach them that their opinions and beliefs don't matter. That they are to shut up and go along with the crowd. That they need to show blind obedience towards anyone in authority. That's how the country came to be going down this shitty road we're on. Kids raised that way become adults who follow men like George W bush, despite their manifest incompetence. to quote an old crazy man, "the surest way to corrupt a youth is to teach him to hold in higher esteem those that think alike, than those that think differently.

Hey, I'm not disagreeing with you.

I do think that it's not just dumb parents that will hold their children in such high esteem that they foist the nuttiness that is "Indingoness." (Let's just call it "dinginess".) I've known quite a few smart, if not brilliant people, who regard their children as demi-gods to be catered too endlessly.

It's pretty horrible when those kids grow up and discover the harsh truth that the world doesn't revolve around them.

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