Shocked…
After reading the cover story of this month’s Mother Jones, on a school for mentally disabled kids that uses electric shock and imprisonment as “treatment” techniques, I want to rinse out my eyes with borax. Has our society reached a moment of reckoning where parents are so desperate that they will accept this kind of abuse for their kids? Where we have so few nets for the most vulnerable citizens that we effectively leave them in the care of predators? And have we in fact grown so cynical that there are entire industries dedicated to barbarism as a form of rehabilitation?
I want to crawl under a rock but I fear we’re already there.