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May. 8th, 2012 12:40 amChildren are a relatively powerless minority, and, like all oppressed people, they know more about their oppressors than their oppressors know about them.
Information is currency, and information that will allow you to decode the language, motivations and behaviour of the occupying forces, on whom you are uniquely dependent for food, for warmth, for happiness, is the most valuable information of all.
Children are extremely interested in adult behaviour. They want to know about us.
Their interest in the precise mechanics of peculiarly adult behaviour is limited. All too often it seems repellent, or dull. A drunk on the pavement is something you do not need to see, and part of a world you do not wish to be part of, so you look away.
Children are very good at looking away.
Information is currency, and information that will allow you to decode the language, motivations and behaviour of the occupying forces, on whom you are uniquely dependent for food, for warmth, for happiness, is the most valuable information of all.
Children are extremely interested in adult behaviour. They want to know about us.
Their interest in the precise mechanics of peculiarly adult behaviour is limited. All too often it seems repellent, or dull. A drunk on the pavement is something you do not need to see, and part of a world you do not wish to be part of, so you look away.
Children are very good at looking away.
