America at least already attempts, futilely, to our detriment I believe, to do so with its incredibly bureaucratic and hierarchical institutions. You either sur

America at least already attempts, futilely, to our detriment I believe, to do so with its incredibly bureaucratic and hierarchical institutions. You either surrender your child to the maw of the state or you're rich enough to buy your own resources for your child though mental wellness of kids at such high powered schools tend to be bad too; I don't think the rich can buy their way to better schooling either. All of this is a 'consensus' of some sort. The consensus I would like to see is one of decentralization and autonomy: Autonomy for children, autonomy for teachers, autonomy for communities to take care of their children as they see fit, where their consensus is reached by their own methods; let us imagine a truly democratic means of human organization. Under our current systems, children are seen as barely anything more than property of parents who must obey the regulations of a government that sees children as manpower and the grist to feed the economy. At best a child can belong to a family with wealth to manage, where they can be elevated to the status of capital investment. Am I being too cynical? I am clearly ignoring all the wonderful things we think about children. But that's the point. The all-suffocating grip of our economics and our politics squeezes the humanity and color out of every body.