Perpetual Childhood
It presents itself in many insidious forms: ignorance, hate, sexism, petty cruelty, prejudiced laws and overall day to day person-to-person misbehavior.
The truth of the matter is that many people on this Earth are individuals with personalities that are childish. These people think they are adults because history/society/sociologists have told them that adulthood (on the Western front) generally entails (only) the following: a car, bills, a home/apartment, children, marriage and a job they hate/does nothing for them but pay bills. But really, these individuals know NOTHING about most things, least of all themselves. They have adopted VERY BASIC ideas from this or that dogma, culture, social conditioning and they think the Universe is only the size of that dogma. They also think that the world revolves around them, that the majority of people care or should care about what they think and how they choose to live - without returning the courtesy, and that somehow what they believe has authority over other people and should be allowed to control others lives (though if you even try to assert your authority over them they are the quickest to call foul play).
A fine example of this is the law "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (I mean, does this not sound like the name of a child's game of hide and seek?). "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) is EASILY one of the dumbest, most childish, biggest wastes of paper, time and energy in our ENTIRE constantly expanding multi-dimensional Universe. Read that sentence again if you don't recognize how truly minuscule and idiotic that must make DADT. The main issues with the IDEA of DADT, that I have (hey, this is my blog so expect me to be stating my opinion on a regular basis), are as follows:
