Fwd: Mamma..'The little one hurts'.. Our egos create more egos to perpetuate the delu

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GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote:

 

GuruRatings , " Tony OClery " <aoclery@> wrote:

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> Namaste,

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> The above words are the last words of wolf child Kamala or amala,,,in

India.....very third person................Cheers Tony.

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> http://www.feralchildren.com/en/children.php?tp=0

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Gesell summed up Kamala's progress, saying that at the age of 16, after nine

years in the care of the orphanage, she still had the mind of a three and a half

year old. But slow though Kamala's progress was, Gesell felt her story

demonstrated just how mentally naked humans are when born and how much we rely

on society to shape us. As he put it, human culture operates on the mind as " a

large scale moulding matrix, a gigantic conditioning apparatus " without which we

would remain at the level of animals. However, while more open-minded than most

about the importance of a social mould in forging man's higher mental abilities,

Gesell still was wedded to a horticultural view of mental development. He

believed that culture " unlocks " our dormant abilities rather than, as the bifold

model suggests, that these abilities are grafted on top of the raw material of

the animal mind. So, for example, Gesell saw the gradual appearance of smiles

and other sociable expressions on Kamala's face as the result of the loosening

of rigid muscles rather than thinking that Kamala might have had to learn such

emotional signals through contact with her fellow humans. Like Singh, Gesell

spoke of Kamala's wolf-like habits as if they were just an overlay of copied

behaviours that thinly papered over her true human nature — or as he put it:

" motor sets [which] constituted the core of her action-system and affected the

organisation of her personality. "

 

Gesell wondered whether, with a few more years, Kamala would have caught up

eventually with other normal children or whether the traumas of her early years

had left her somehow permanently stunted. The question was never answered

because in 1929, Kamala caught typhoid and died. Her last words to Singh's wife

— possibly too poignant to be true — were said to have been: " Mama, the little

one hurts. "

 

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