If one day the secret of childhood were to become no longer a secret, the state would be able to save immense… — Alice Miller
If one day the secret of childhood were to become no longer a secret, the state would be able to save immense sums that it spends on hospitals, psychiatric clinics, and prisons maintaining our blindness. That this might deliberately happen is almost too incredible a thought.
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