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Bad Seeds




   Children are seen as the center of attention, innocent, helpless victims in constant need of protection. In their pursuit of indisputable individuality they turn rebels against any form of rules and order, mischievious for its own sake. They reflect the childish element that takes delight from disorder, not so much a childish innocence, but malevolence. Children are seen as innocent victims, yet untrustworthy mischief makers.



  Sabine Bussing says this display is new, defining angst laden children once seen solely as objects of compassion. Against this, adulthood is a fall from grace with fortitude. Precisely through this ‘other-worldliness’ children become sinister. Bussing says the child dramatically attends their victimization with aggression. In the ensuing horror the child is not only feared for but is exposed to a sense of evil and danger. A developing ‘monster’; sweet and angelic, hides the ‘brute’.



   How a child could harbor hideous intentions against loving parents goes against the very laws of nature. Bussing says what we have here is a ‘generational’ conflict. The child represents their whole generation, with an insurmountable gap between them and their parents.



    Both see each other as perfect strangers, a true reconciliation is hard to come by. The child is deeply ambiguous; an innocent and helpless ‘clean slate’ that we, as adults, can shape as we please. Or develops a mysterious, mischievous rebel who rarely confronts us directly and honestly, but works behind the scenes to undermine our power in hidden ways.



   Dani Cavallaro describes children as ‘strangers’ untrustworthy due to their connection with alternative fantasy worlds. As aliens, children must be closely supervised and controlled.





The Myth of Evil- Philip Cole