Eleven ways to leave your mummy and Daddy.ONE Never vote for, patronize pa·tron·ize tr.v. pa·tron·ized, pa·tron·iz·ing, pa·tron·iz·es 1. To act as a patron to; support or sponsor. 2. To go to as a customer, especially on a regular basis. 3. , do business with or be pleasant to anyone who uses the words 'ordinary people'. The invariable in·var·i·a·ble adj. Not changing or subject to change; constant. in·var  i·a·bil assumptions are a) that they, my dear, are far from ordinary and b) the
ordinary people are infants, fools, gulls and fodder.
TWO Never do business with a company offering 'solutions'. It is a pernicious weasel word weasel word n. An equivocal word used to deprive a statement of its force or to evade a direct commitment. [From the weasel's habit of sucking the contents out of an egg without breaking the shell. not just because it is pompous and self-aggrandizing but also because it is telling us that we have a problem. As grown-ups, we should decide that. THREE Mistrust anything catchy whether it's the Axis of Evil, advertising slogans or blatant branding. Catchiness exists to prevent thought and disguise motives. Grown-ups can think for themselves. FOUR Ignore celebrities, except when they are doing what they are celebrated for doing: acting, playing sports, singing etc. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIVE Don't assume that market forces will decide wisely. The market is rigged by manipulation and infantilization. SIX Suspect administration. Its purpose is to free the organization to do what it is meant to do ... but many organizations believe that what they are meant to do is to administer themselves. Only the infantile believe that the world is there for them. SEVEN Do not love yourself unconditionally. Unconditional love This article is about concept of unconditional love. For other uses, see Unconditional love (disambiguation). Unconditional love is a concept that means showing love towards someone regardless of his or her actions or beliefs. is for babies and comes from their mothers. When we try to love ourselves unconditionally we go in for self-aggrandizing--like Paul Wolfowitz Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships. or Tony Blair--and end up with quite a babyish sense of entitlement. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EIGHT Ignore fashion, particularly in clothes and music. NINE We should distrust those who believe they have found Jesus Christ Jesus Christ: see Jesus. Jesus Christ 40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11] See : Ascension Jesus Christ kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T. . Can they prove it? Otherwise they are just describing an imaginary friend, of which there is nothing more infantile. TEN Don't fear seriousness. Babies aren't allowed to be serious and the infantilized adolescents confuse it with po-faced solemnity SOLEMNITY. The formality established by law to render a contract, agreement, or other act valid. 2. A marriage, for example, would not be valid if made in jest, and without solemnity. Vide Marriage, and Dig. 4, 1, 7; Id. 45, 1, 30. . Big babies are often earnest about trivia, but not serious things. Far better to make jokes about important things--a good way of being serious. ELEVEN Hide. Grown-ups are not required to be perpetually accountable, while the instinct of those two great infantilizers, Government and Big Business, is to keep an eye on to watch. - Shak. See also: Eye everyone all the time. Paraphrased, with thanks to Michael Bywater, author of Big Babies or Why can't we just grow up? Granta Books, London 2006. |
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