These kids don’t feel anything.
They’ve learned not to feel anything.
And because they don’t feel anything they can pretend to be adults and cope with the pain that game brings.
They can be fucked half to death in the back of a family car and call it affection.
Or business.
Deal with everything in terms of money and power, because they come from lives without money where they were powerless.
And hurt.
Everyone’s looking for someone to blame. Society. Culture. Hollywood. Predators.
Looking everywhere but the right place.
Children are very simple, mr. Jerusalem. Very easy devices to break, or assemble wrong.
You want to know who did this to these kids?
Only their parents.
That’s the thing no one wants to hear.
Every time you stop thinking about how you’re treating your kid, you make one of these.
It really is as simple as that.
It’s got nothing to do with poverty or the failure of society or any of that.
It’s got everything to do with the responsibility of making a human.
Why are your kids selling yourselves on the streets?
Because you completely fucked up the job of raising them.
That’s what no one wants to hear. That we can’t blame anything outside our houses.
And every time we say and do otherwise, we make more kids like that…