Practical thinking and the truth that envelopes it are not what we always process; humans deviate, improvise and construct alternative realities to forget. Reconstructing towards applying false redemption, and like Adam and Eve, quickly position blame to avoid self-responsibility, thus accomplishing the burial of self-guilt. Parenting, Guardianship, or any responsibility that requires the management of other humans, especially young people, requires your observation towards fair play so that if a situation occurs that is off track, it will proceed without challenge (providing ‘You’ are balanced ‘normal’). That evolved in ‘here or there’ that may have suspected half –truths, yet proposing a quick conclusion, implying reasonable plausible effort, to bring suspicious closure.

Because of the hope that things will remedy themselves, without your participation, if so, then you kneel before the self-deceiving image of the ‘Fallen Angel’ and it will return to haunt and torture. Thus, recognize always that bad things that occur within your area of responsibility should not be left alone, and unresolved, there is always some official record to conceal the truth that gets unveiled eventually.

We must understand that until every brick is turned upside down, as the old folk say, it will most likely not develop on a truth-based platform and will grow its own tentacles. Perhaps, it is naïve to think that falling angels’ influence is just based on a metaphor towards error and the struggle of self-adjustment to correct errors. But instead, fallen angels seem to reside within the construct of our species as a real influence. There is a new scientific title that compels most of us, in the pursuit to free one’s self from guilt, to willingly transfer that guilt to ‘some other’ with an improvised narrative and the pretence convictions of the hecklers throughout history. This type of guilt can alter your personality to just another: ‘ Look the other way, pretend sleeping shepherd.’

This column has before addressed school behaviour, especially male behaviour with respect to females. This includes those females who were physical enough to punch with their male counterparts – even though in my areas of growing up, we have witnessed, and were told of Women who were fighters, and I’m talking street fighters. Yet they were distinguished from how we addressed young girls our age, even the obnoxious ones.

With maleness, even at 12 years old, came a sense of responsibility with respect to the levels of interaction between boys and girls in conflict situations. I was raised in a matriarchal value system. In 1919, two male students were caught on camera assaulting a female; this was a chance to enforce a restoration against past cultural-creed deterioration resulting from multi-sub-cultural influences. But, It was not addressed. Next came the assault of a female teacher, and the example was again missed to establish the public norm that was a necessity. I did a Cartoon then, Sunday 8, Dec. 2019, which is necessary for content to repeat with this article.

I’ve learnt more since 1919. As an illustrator and fiction writer, it is imperative that I must get the accepted facts around which symbolic/ adventure fiction is developed. I met a trained Psychologist some time ago, who encouraged me to explore and understand the symbolism of the ‘Chicken and The Eggs’ (this symbolism can be explored on Google). The eggs are the infected content learned through the dysfunctional cultural norms we are exposed to, accommodated by critical silence. The Chicken is where the symbolic-dismal embodiment of the core experiences are first nurtured, these painful experiences that have forcibly intruded, or were adopted, imposed upon, or lured into our lives by peer pressure or our own week vision of machismo that eventually result, in ‘The hatching of the Eggs’ that are the disturbing and offensive ways many of us eventually deal with internal issues; externally, both adults and the young. Male and female. We must conclude that culture and genetics are interweaved in the overall structure of influences. However, it is culture that is in control, inducing and defining the trends that the majority follows. True, some of us who become important people are dangerously wired differently. That is where genetics come in, this is also where the sub-culture of the ‘eggs’ are allowed space, and aggressive disturbing expressions emerge as the new normal. But once defined and recognised, such can be intercepted by social and legal ordinances in a serious, enlightened human cultural system.

Some years ago, I was exposed to the welfare section of the Ministry of Education, and learned that teachers are exposed to information that can play an important part in shaping cultural norms if supported. I’ve worked with teachers and their concerns on more than one occasion to address culturally developed social interceptions that can lead to mental health conditions that can further lead to serious social manifestations, from underage usage of marijuana peddled under the guise of ‘enabling intellect expansion. ’ To a lack of empathy, based on the theft of childhood cultural awareness, which remains a crucial discussion, not yet fully started.

In closing, this is our problem. Our society is also subject to social media. However, we were all children once; we have templates of the past, and the past was not perfect, but today requires a greater effort because it’s a much more transparent world while being deceptive, so our discussion will require much more content, and clearer answers and propositions to create the necessary redeeming balance needed.