Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Cocoa Wars
No one really knows the truffles of our world when it comes to children.
It is a sad experience, to know that sometimes, we can't bring up our children how we thought they would be brought up; all the formulas, exercises, solutions, and answers would not help some of our children. Our children are the future in real time. They represent the future in their tiny physical space and what we do, what we share with them, may never actually improve them and the future but we still do it to satisfy their ever growing cravings.
In our country, we set rules for children, and we hold them at arm's length with those rules. But, the rules are for the common good of our nation; we ban child labour because we believe that children are all words connotative of fluffy, innocent, and obnoxious. And no self-respecting employer would even sit for an interview with such a thing. But, we need to feed our little, plump cherubs, and one way to do that is to produce food that fluffy, innocent, obnoxious children would eat. Even though children can be taught to eat anything, even insects, if they have to, we still agree that our children are different from other children. That they are children who will need to rule with an iron fist, and others are merely young in age, by some inevitable stroke of luck, and look miraculously like our children but are not really it.
So, some things never change, and we continue to eat chocolate because we can, and because the poor children of less developed countries don't have any other choice.
It is a sad experience, to know that sometimes, we can't bring up our children how we thought they would be brought up; all the formulas, exercises, solutions, and answers would not help some of our children. Our children are the future in real time. They represent the future in their tiny physical space and what we do, what we share with them, may never actually improve them and the future but we still do it to satisfy their ever growing cravings.
In our country, we set rules for children, and we hold them at arm's length with those rules. But, the rules are for the common good of our nation; we ban child labour because we believe that children are all words connotative of fluffy, innocent, and obnoxious. And no self-respecting employer would even sit for an interview with such a thing. But, we need to feed our little, plump cherubs, and one way to do that is to produce food that fluffy, innocent, obnoxious children would eat. Even though children can be taught to eat anything, even insects, if they have to, we still agree that our children are different from other children. That they are children who will need to rule with an iron fist, and others are merely young in age, by some inevitable stroke of luck, and look miraculously like our children but are not really it.
So, some things never change, and we continue to eat chocolate because we can, and because the poor children of less developed countries don't have any other choice.
