What
is Parens Patriae ?
Parens
Patriae is a term used for describing the basic nature of a
monarch,
state,
government, institution to be that of a parent to the governed especially
to the minors or specially challenged or particularly those who cannot make
their own decisions due to an infirmity (natural or man – made).
In
this short article I attempt to explain, if a constitutional democratic
government is a parent then anarchists and communists are the rebel teenagers.
Therefore,
the following terms will be briefly touched upon and discussed.
1.
Parens Patriae
2.
Anarchy
3.
Communism
4.
Juvenile
Delinquency
I am
opening the discussion on how many popular psuedo “activists" come from a
disturbed childhood, broken family and hence have a deep subconscious
distrust in the government policies, courts and any formal traditional
structure of order and control like a school etc. However, this does not mean
that their cause or attempt to raise a paradigm shift is purely fictional or
unreasonable.
There
has been perhaps only little or no research and study in India on the
psychology of a Communist and an Anarchist. However, the American and European
Psychologists studied the same after WWII and have continued to do the same in
their socio-political context.
Importance
of a healthy and constant father figure in healthy child development
Many,
psychologists studied the importance of a father in a child’s life as very
important. Something which was ignored for the longest time especially in
Family Courts and divorce cases where child custody is used as a weapon.
Children
from broken families or without presence of a constant fatherly figure fall
pray to drug abuse, alcoholism, depression and have high likelihood of being
juvenile delinquents. These studies were particularly done by male
psychologists who came from difficult childhood themselves with single mothers.
Their research being that awarding custody of a child to a mother and
disregarding the importance of presence of father in a child’s life after
divorce leaves far reaching effects on a child’s psychology.
In
1996, 70% of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long
sentences, were raised by single mothers. Wade Horn, “Why There Is No
Substitute For Parents”, IMPRIMIS 26, NO.6, June, 1997. More than single mothers, it can be said
Single Parent as more gender appropriate.
I am
not a psychologist and neither do I intend to be. As a student of human
development, I studied psychology to demystify, liberate us of any labelism. In
this article, I intend to deconstruct the relationship of law with the governed
and the genesis of anarchist/communism/ pseudo activists especially in the
light of Greta toolkit leak. The synchornised tweets, scripted propaganda against
an underdeveloped country. In writing so, I do not wish to label any particular
celebrity or sit in judgment of anybody’s personal life, traumatic childhood,
mental disorders. However, there is a high likelihood that after reading the
write up, people will end up with labels, prejudices and unwillingly, I have
done exactly the same. It is a natural human consequence prevalent in
capitalism, communism, anarchism.
As a
citizen, we are duty bound to refute every foreign intellectual attack on my
country’s Constitutional ideals by liberal American – Canadian women who are
popstars, pornstars, lawyers, climate activist, poetess etc. most of whom did
not have an iota of our constitutional structure, legislations of 2020 and the
geo-political, historic, economic, scientific background to it. This is exactly
the hypocrisy we all need to be vocal about.
After,
their bluff was called out they played the victim card that said we will not be
“Silenced”. These are exactly the placards and language used by Indian
poster girl of peace.
Most, activists/communists/anarchists will rebel or sloganeer for “azaadi”
freedom against the existing political- socio structure but they will
mostly not have a sustainable solution to the problem, they will only be obsessed
with the problem or their hyper hypothetical apprehensions. If you disagree
with them you will be labeled too. As much I am against any kind of labeling
and prejudices, one cannot ignore the reality of the same. And I am probably
doing the same thing by way of analysing the psychology of recent tweeters.
Refer
to the links below for understanding the pattern ( no fatherly figure in early
childhood, formative years, broken family, child sexual abuse, mental health
disorder). These reasons are but natural to rebel against any and every
natural
Meena
Harris
: Born to a teen mother in the year 1984 ( details of biological father
unknown) who later got married in 1992-1998.
https://factsbuddy.com/meena-harris/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Harris#Personal_life
Rihanna : Early childhood
marred by arguments with parents, alcoholism, divorce.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/rihanna-6579.php
Greta
Thernburg : Mental health disorders
Thus,
from the above discussion, it can be inferred that men and women who do not
have a healthy constant fatherly figure in early years do behave in rebellious,
delinquent way against any form of
formal structure.
Who is an anarchist ?
"Even
though some of the anarcho-whimarchists posture as "libertarians" and
claim to be for individual liberty, to the extent that their psychology tends
to cause them to support ethical relativism to that same degree they generally
don't support those values which are necessary for a free society to exist --
values like respect for law, private property rights of other people, meeting
contract obligations, the need for police and military defense, the need for
moral self-restraint, due process, constitutional government, etc. Since
there is no such thing as a constitutional anarchy, the result of any attempt
to put their notions into practice would necessarily be statism -- unlimited
government. This is just as opposed to laissez faire constitutionalism
and freedom for peaceful adults as any other form of unlimited political
power" - Nats Revilo
http://fredericbastiat.com/The%20Psychology%20of%20Anarchists.html
What
is an anarchy
?
" It
is not that the anarchists are merely still rebelling against their parents or
any human authority figures, but that they see reality itself as an affront to
their sacred whims, which they want to be omnipotent and to trump everything
else. Thus, they not only eschew governmental laws which they dislike,
but also even the moral suasion of ethical admonitions from either religion or
philosophy. No collection of "thou shall nots" applies to
them"
Marian
Wasilewski describes
the modus operandi of the communists as those taking advantages of pre-existing
fault lines by supporting the contestants in the under-developed countries.
They attack the consciousness of underdeveloped countries with their own virus
of communist ideology. This virus can be infected by way of force also.
marian-wasilewski.pl/the-psychological-roots-of-communism/
Is
anarchy an offshoot of communism ?
Some
psychologists believe that “there is a remarkable similarity between the
psychology of the anarchist and that of the American "liberal" or
socialist” – [no copyright infringement intended]. There have been
psychological studies on mob behaviour in a riot, most anarchists try to
justify the mob violence by prevailing social conditions and a sense of
rejection and denial.
Defeatism,
Deceptive hypocricy, Low-self-esteem, Pseduo-liberalism are a few adjectives
used to describe the communists in India.
https://www.thehansindia.com/hans/opinion/news-analysis/the-psychology-of-communist-liberals-651426
From
the above discussion we can understand a pattern of the vulnerable being used
as a weapon to create wedges between the fault lines of developing/
underdeveloped countries and the false sense of power and self- importance the
communist supporters derive from their egalitarian ideals and eternal pessimism.
Therefore,
in an Indian Context it is a continuous war of ideologies of the corrupted
right and the corrupted left. In a democratic constitutional republic we need a
strong opposition to check the powers of an elected parliamentary government
and in doing so we cannot neglect the influence of foreign powers in our
institutions – Education, Media, Politics, History so on and so forth.
My
sincere suggestion is to read the links attached in the blog for a deeper
insight. It is best for all not to idolize a particular line of thought and at
the same time not become a devotee of ideals of revolution every now and then. Revolution
from what ? A Constitutionally, democratically elected Parliament or structures
of communism, fascism, disctatorship ?
All
information is available in the public domain, weblinks are attached.
No
copyright information is intended.
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