Carl Sagan, in the The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark said: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
Without going down any of the many rabbit holes, my point is that the waters are muddied. Many young people don’t even watch the news anymore and don’t vote. The point is that they don’t know who to trust or think ‘they’re all as bad as each other’. That’s how it often is with the alienated child too. Just as powerful influences might withhold knowledge to safeguard established systems, an alienating parent might manipulate narratives to serve their own agenda too.
When confronted with revelations challenging their deeply ingrained beliefs, alienated children (just as with the general public) feel outraged at the subterfuge. There’s an inclination to resist acknowledging the deception. Reconciling and ultimately embracing the truth underscores the intricate facets of human psychology and our inherent yearning to comprehend the world around us.
As alienated parents, we prepare to embrace the moment when our children embark on a journey of seeking deeper truths, beyond the narrative (fake news?) of just one parent’s voice. Anticipating this pivotal juncture, we hold onto the aspiration that their evolving critical thinking, curiosity, and thirst for truth will eventually lead them back into our lives.
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