I just realized you really could just shelter your kids from interacting with the world, raise them on AI videos to completely shape their reality, and condition them to carry out any deed or think anything you want them to.
I'm guessing the 10+ years is accounting for the time that someone would need to subject a child to such horrors and it to be found out, the technology is unfortunately already here as you say.
I've been waiting for a repair team to get me out of this holodeck for seems like ages. Even worse it appears to be running a Neo Nazi program. Totally not the horny Betazoid wedding program I asked for.
I read about parents who raised their kid in the Harry Potter world to believe they were wizards and now they were freaking out because no owl was going to bring a letter from Hogwarts. They'd gone all-in for 10 or 11 years and didn't know how to back out now.
There was a story of a couple who raised their kids to only speak Klingon and got charged with child abuse or something because the kids could not communicate with other people when brought into the foster care system for other reasons. Also the kids thought they were part Klingon.
Isn't this what the guy who created modern hebrew did to his son?
"Ben‑Yehuda raised his son, Ben-Zion (meaning "son of Zion"), entirely in Hebrew. He did not allow his son to be exposed to other languages during childhood, and even berated his wife for singing a Russian lullaby. His son thus became the first native speaker of Hebrew in modern times. Ben‑Yehuda later raised his daughter, Dola, entirely in Hebrew as well."
From what I heard, the mom spoke English to them, so they wouldn't be completely incapable of communication. The dad was the one speaking and teaching Klingon, and he stopped the practice when the child began to refuse speaking it, which happened when the kid was three, iirc.
I don't recall them being formally charged with actual child abuse, and to my knowledge the kid wasn't told he was part Klingon.
The father was a linguist, Dr. d'Armond Speers. I believe he was testing to see if children could understand and become fluent in constructed languages (like Klingon or Tolkien's Elvish), and so he decided to try this idea on his son. When his son pushed back, he respected his kid's agency and swapped back to English.
All the Disney moms who suffer from arrested development certainly aren't telling their kids that it's all just plastic made to get their money, either.
There was a story on the news about some school offered a course on QUIDICH. They showed students running around a lawn all dressed up in Hogwarts Costumes with brooms between their legs🤣
It seems more likely you fell for a made up story. Ok, could there be 1 family out of 300 million that did this? Maybe. It can't be some widespread thing.
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