To the editor: You will need to defend youngsters from the tough realities of life to permit them to develop their sense of self regularly. This preliminary “bubble” permits for interior stability and security to develop, which in flip fortifies that particular person as they start to turn into conscious of life’s harshness. Make-believe, fantasies, fairy tales, tooth fairies and Santa Claus serve this goal.
The kid who’s allowed no protected house to develop, as in situations of poverty, abuse or the overwhelming awfulness of warfare, developmentally suffers. On the different excessive, extra coddling of a kid is crippling in that it denies that youngster the chance to learn to address all of life that they’ll encounter as adults.
Donald Trump, the peddler of unreality, tries to promote the general public on how great every little thing is, might be and — insidiously — was (“A small military is racing in opposition to time and Trump to protect U.S. historical past,” Nov. 4). Modifying historical past to subtract uncomfortable truths denies mature youngsters, after which grown adults, the power to be taught to deal with what the reality of the previous actually was. Like in Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” simply take the appropriate tablet and all discomfort is alleviated; the worth resides a lie.
As George Santayana mentioned, “Those that can’t keep in mind the previous are condemned to repeat it.”
Sheldon Kardener, Santa Monica
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To the editor: George Orwell’s well-known quote from his novel “1984” is distressingly related in the present day: “Who controls the previous controls the longer term. Who controls the current controls the previous.”
It’s time for accountable members of the media — together with the Los Angeles Instances — who wish to protect the reality, freedom of speech and our democratic republic type of authorities to cease parroting Trump’s rhetoric and definitions of points. Cease calling it his “struggle on ‘woke.’” Name it what it truly is: a struggle on historical past and reality.
Neal Sheade, Los Angeles
