Why Innocence?

I want to preface this article by stating the obvious.

We have no proof that Santa doesn’t exist.

Sure, our parents may have told us that they’re the ones who eat the cookies and set the presents under the tree, but do you really want to take their word for it?

I mean, we all lie, and family is not exempt from that fact.

But even if your parents 100% believed they were telling the truth when they told you they were the ones doing what they told you Santa was, what’s to say Santa didn’t use his magical powers to make them THINK they were the ones doing those things?

But, in reality, they were asleep and merely dreaming they did all those things.

“B-b-but Dan, my parents showed me their bank account and its expensed the toys I got for Christmas.“

Oh, you poor confused child, you. Those expenses are obviously to pay the elves who make your toys at the North Pole.

I mean, even magical beings living in negative degrees Celsius weather have to put food on the table, right?

Okay, I obviously don’t believe that Santa Claus doesn’t exist.

This is just one example of childhood innocence I wanted to demonstrate to you, the joyless adult reading this article.

Okay, so what?

• Kindergarteners sent home with masturbation assignment
• BREAKING: Georgia district defends offering kids porn, claims it “promotes intellectual freedom”
• SCOOP: New mandatory hospital staff training promotes transitioning 4-year-olds
• WATCH: Drag queen appears to perform lap dance on student at Pride event with high schoolers

These are just a few examples of a trend I’m noticing.

Childhood innocence seems to be a dirty concept nowadays.

If it wasn’t, there wouldn’t be such a large effort to destroy it.

Okay, but why is this actually happening?

Assuming the forces behind these attacks are anti-conservative in nature, then it’s safe to say that they have a perverse incentive to abuse and traumatize children in this fashion.

But why?

Because, as far as the anti-conservatives are concerned, what makes people want to conserve traditional norms is their perception of the past where those norms originate.

Here’s an example.

I tell you that I want to erase Santa Claus completely from the public lexicon.

In 20 years’ time, no one will know that there were ever was a Santa Claus.

This will be achieved in conspiracy with all adults to simply not tell any child about Santa Claus.

Assume that I can do this without the use of force.

Would you support my plan?

If you answer yes, then it could be because your childhood was bereft of the innocence and charm that a Santa-Claus-filled childhood brought to other children.

You may have grown up in a broken home with your parents constantly fighting, and, at some point, another kid living more well-off than you told you about this magical man who brings toys to good boys and girls.

Excited, you race home to tell your parents of the news, somewhat hoping that the knowledge of a man who rewards good people would get them to stop fighting.

Without tact, your father tells you, in between swigs of his favorite whiskey, “Santa Claus isn’t real, you stupid brat. It’s just a thing parents tell their dumbass kids so they settle down.”

Now, this is just an example, and it might not represent your childhood completely, if at all.

However, it can be easy to see why someone living through that experience may not have as much of an incentive to protect the existence of Santa Claus as someone growing up in a more stable and loving household.

If the things that brought you joy are in the past, then you have an incentive to ensure the present‘s values align with the past’s.

However, if the past is filled with terror, resentment, alcoholism, regret, and all other manners of negativity, with not even the slightest innocence allowed to seep through, then I have no use for the past.

I will vote for any values aside from those that protect the awful past.

As such, there is no longer any room for conservativism.

Only progress.

Even if we end up progressing into Sodom.

Those who want us to progress in that way will gain more power with each childhood they destroy.

So if you ever feel the need to tell your 7-year-old that Santa isn’t real, in the vain hope this will relinquish you of the burden of buying presents for Christmas, then remember this.

This is what’s replacing Santa.

Related Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Kentler

“But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

— Mathew 19:14 ESV

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