Question: The parents of fifteen-year-old teenager Ethan Crumbley were arrested in the United States. He shot four people at his school.
A teacher saw the boy viewing images of bullets. The boy explained that his family engaged in shooting sports. The school attempted to immediately informed his mother about it, but only was successful to get a corroborating response from the mother a day later.
The following day, the day of the shooting, a teacher saw the boy’s drawings that depicted a semi-automatic weapon, a person who was shot, a laughing emoji, and the words “Blood everywhere,” and, “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.” The school called the parents in for a conference and requested the parents to take the boy home. The parents refused and left their son at school. They also failed to disclose that the boy had a weapon that the father had purchased for his son.
On the same day the 15-year-old shot and killed four students and wounded 7 others in his shooting rampage in a high school in Detroit, Michigan suburb. He killed four students, and seven others were injured.
What kind of parents are these?!
Answer: They themselves are a product of our society, of our state. They don’t know what to do. They don’t know what’s going on. They don’t know how to react to it. They are in some kind of confusion. And it’s not just them.
Question: But if they buy military weapons for a child or teach him to kill in some way, what is the parents’ idea? What is their philosophy?
Answer: The idea is that, in the end, he would be able to protect himself in this terrible world.
Comment: Which means in advance they are saying: “Son, the world is terrible, and you have to be strong.”
My Response: Yes. That’s what he feels.
Question: Where will we arrive with such a philosophy?
Answer: We will destroy each other.
Question: But we ourselves will die, right?
Answer: Well, then we’ll die.
Comment: In principle, we give birth to a child and at the same time we say: “In order to survive, you have to be strong, stronger than everyone else.”
My Response: Yes, that’s how the world works. Look at everyone from state leaders to everyone you see on the street.
Question: But what about this idea that we constantly uttered that we always wanted our children to be happy?
Answer: We don’t know what happiness means. Maybe happiness is, as they say in a song, “a warm gun.”
Comment: The concept of happiness is all mixed up. The understanding of happiness has ceased to be somehow warm, close, or dear.
My Response: No, no, it needs to be taught for a long time and really from a young age. It’s not easy. Today the world is not like that anymore. Today if you talk about such values, they will laugh at you and no one will be friends with such a child.
Question: So the child should be strong? The strongest in the class?
Answer: He should be feared. The cult of power, in principle, is the cult of our time. Be the first.
Look at what is being done between countries and states, in all kinds of enterprises, and between everyone. The most important thing is to be strong, to be physically strong like a bodybuilder, strong in money, strong in some game, in something. In general you have to be strong. And such a state leads to despair; it’s easier to just buy a weapon and employ lynch “law”.
Question: The fact that the boy has such hopelessness as evidenced by what he wrote on the day of the execution: “Help me! The world is terrible!”—is this a consequence of this parental affection, this parental love?
Answer: Maybe. Because he sees what a difference there is in relation to him from the outside world and from his parents. His parents are ready to do anything to give him everything. Even buy a gun.
Question: So are we the first to break the world with our love, as you say?
Answer: It’s due to incorrect parental love, which is realized in this way.
Question: How do the parents direct their love in today’s world so that a different child grows up, so that everything works out differently?
Answer: It all needs to be changed. We need to change at the root, at the core. And if the basis of our world is egoistic and we don’t think about it, then we simply can’t think of anything else except to stock up on weapons and each one to fence ourselves off, batten down, and live like this.
Question: And shoot back?
Answer: Yes. There’s no getting away from this. “My house is my fortress.” And this is the way to think and act.
Question: But how should we raise children?
Answer: That’s the way to educate: that he needs to constantly think and worry about his own safety. And such thoughts about his own safety, which the surrounding world imposes on him, lead to the fact that he draws the appropriate conclusions: I need a gun and I must, after all, destroy my haters.
Question: Then the question is: how will we change this world? What should we do to change this world?
Answer: You can’t ban guns; that’s understandable. You can’t ban hatred between people. The only thing you can do is teach them how to use love and hate correctly.
Question: How do you do that? How do you use them correctly?
Answer: This is already a whole science, and it needs to be learned at school.
And all these activities in class, in all kinds of subjects they study at school, geography, history, and so on, are secondary. The most important thing to teach a person is to interact correctly with others and with their environment—with the still, vegetative, animate, and people. This is the most important thing. And we don’t teach them that.
They came out of their mother, were born, and somehow in the first years we teach them how to interact with this world. And then, when we have to teach them the sciences of how to interact with this world correctly, we stuff them with all sorts of empty material.
But we do not teach how to treat other people, how to create the right society with them, how to make a person look at you favorably, or how to create a community.
Question: And this should be taught?
Answer: This is the most important thing! There must be a school for this. Because school exists in the transition between a small child who practically just came out of his mother—and for the first 5-6 years he is still next to her—and then adulthood. And adult life is with strangers, with other people, and so on. That is, the school should be in the transition from birth to getting out into the world. We do not give this preparation.
Question: So are we talking about a school for children as well as for parents? Because there should be the same atmosphere at home.
Answer: Of course, yes.
Question: And is a school for teachers as well?
Answer: This is naturally a common task.
This is called pedagogy; this is called teaching; this is called raising and educating children. It’s called parenting!
And what are they given? They are given a completely unnecessary education. It’s not parenting.
Question: What will happen then if the gun is still in the child’s hand? If he is brought up the way you say, what will he do with this gun?
Answer: He will protect everyone. From whom? From animals, from aliens, I don’t know. He will have the idea of protecting everyone. This Earth and this is all mine. I want everyone to feel good.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/9/21
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