5 May

We live in very idealistic times, where everything is processed through the head and through feelings. I went through school at the tail end of corporal punishment, and was caned several times. it didn’t damage me in the slightest, and I much preferred it to the mind-fucking that now passes for apparent care. I also much preferred being smacked if I was a shit growing up, to endless ‘discussions’ about my behaviour. Physicality is a deeper sort of care that modern mores simply can’t understand. As Lawrence wrote about so brilliantly, it activates a much deeper, more vital part of you. It causes a flash or fire in your eyes, it arouses your deeper ‘will’ and volition. A parent who smacks is taking a deeper responsibility for you, and rousing your deeper self at the same time. In schools kids are deeply cynical about the permanent counselling they now live with instead, they roll their eyes. People who equate this sort of physicality with ‘violence’ are beyond help, for me. Again, idealistic claptrap. We’ve created whole populations of vastly over sensitive souls, who can’t face the slightest challenge without ending up with ‘mental health’ issues. because we ignore the full dimensions of physicality.