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Artist unidentified
Connecticut
c. 1797
Oil on paperboard, mounted on Masonite
34 x 24 in.
American Folk Art Museum, gift of Ralph Esmerian, 2005.8.1
I've written several posts about the young boy across the street. I've already mentioned his loud and boisterous activities on the front lawn of his house. I've talked to the father telling him to watch out for the dangers of letting him run around loudly, even though it is his home, since he can attract unsavory characters.
He must be really spoilt. I mentioned meeting him and his babysitter at the crowded Eaton Centre mall, where he was strapped to his stroller, but kept quiet with candy and pop. Then, he's allowed to run around, at times literally screaming, during his "play time" in the front yard. Young children don't need to scream, or yell loudly, when they're playing. He does this throughout his "play" period, which can last for a couple of hours (how utterly exhausted that must be at the end - and is that the point?!). It is a sign, I'm sure, of his rebelliousness, and the laxness of his guilty parents, who let him do whatever he wants, at least during those "play" periods. I say "guilty parents" because he is clearly spends the good part of the day with his Filipino babysitter or at the neighborhood day care center, while his parents are away. I've passed the mother in the street all dressed up in business attire, so she must leave him for the better part of the day to go to some office. So, they overcompensate with play and candy, all empty treats for a growing boy.
I've compared him to the Norwegian murderer, the blond and blue-eyed Anders Breivik, who it appears now is a product of a dysfunctional family (of course, much more so than this boy, but it is all in degrees). I'm not saying this kid will grow up to be a murder, but I'm pretty sure he'll grow up to be a liberal, and a Canadian one at that. And probably one of those elite liberals who run to their luxurious hills, and let the battles rage in the fields below to get their liberal ideologies in place (not for them, of course, but for everyone else).
I've said before that we need to prepare ourselves for the Götterdämmerung, the destruction, that liberals are working towards (whether they do it consciously or as a result of their ideology) in order to build their utopia. I wrote: "Our task is to prevent this destruction of our world."