Child abuse and politics…

sometimes I have thought we maybe should show our emotions so spontaneously as a small dog...

Alice Miller at page 28 in ”The Body Never Lies”:

“I call the violent kind of ‘upbringing’ abuse, not only because children are thus refused the right to dignity and respect as human beings, but also because such an approach to parenting establishes a kind of totalitarian regime in which it is impossible for children to perceive the humiliations, indignities, and disrespect they have been subjected to, let alone to defend themselves against them. These patterns of childhood will inevitably then be adopted by their victims and used on their partners, and their own children, at work, in politics, wherever the fear and anxiety of the profoundly insecure child can be fended off with the aid of external power. It is in this way dictators are born, these are people with a deep-seated contempt for everyone else, people who were never respected as children and thus do their utmost to earn that respect at a later stage with the assistance of the gigantic power apparatus they have built up around them

The sphere of politics is an excellent example of the way in which the hunger for power and recognition is never stilled.”