I didn't have access to internet yesterday thus I am posting my article today.

We are being thought right from the early years of our childhood that we should respect older people. Thus let's have a look a little bit more closely at this topic.

My question is: "Why should we teach children to respect elders instead of teaching the elders how to gain the respect of children and younger generations ?".

In the current system to gain respect it is basically enough that you are older then somebody and this gives you automatically the right to be respected. It doesn't really matter what you do or what you have done your whole life - if you are older then you have the right to be respected. And this has been so engraved into our mind that nobody questions it anymore. Simply speaking this whole respect has become an automated reaction / program in the computer ( our mind ).

And how do we get to that point of making it an automated reaction ?

Well... as I said before... it is achieved through the brainwashing which starts from early childhood. Even though the child doesn't speak the language yet the parents or other people make gesture and face expressions which clearly indicate that they are not impressed with a child if he/she does something which would - according to the standards of society - show disrespect for the person. Well... we cannot exaggerate on this point because a little baby cannot do much to show disrespect but at the same time it is important to indicate that the whole process starts slowly somewhere there.

When the child grows the brainwashing continues and the methods of brainwashing are also evolving - punishments in various forms including spanking, reprimands, verbal warnings with anger etc. And so it continues in school until the person gets eventually broken down and doesn't question anymore the concept of respecting elders and does it automatically without even asking a question if the person deserves to be respected.

To be continued...