Children’s questioning of unjustified authority is inherently punk

Evidence

It is their restoration of the child’s reason in the face of adult intransigent baboonery that makes Kafka, Carroll and The Prisoner punk. Until it is socialised — i.e. stupefied into mute acceptance of the irrational caprice of the socius — the child knows that authority is nothing unless it is can be defended via reason. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 350

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘punk’ not as a musical genre but as the insistence that authority must justify itself by reason.
• XREF: connects to: Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10953; Children who learn that truth is personally discoverable become less authoritarian — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1046; Authoritarian personality patterns are observable in children by age ten. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 650 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Children spontaneously articulate the logical incoherence of legalized adult violence against them #expands (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 10953
• Childhood conviction can collide with adult authority over a factual impossibility #exemplifies (0.80) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1666
• Children who learn that truth is personally discoverable become less authoritarian #corroborates (0.78) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1046
• Authoritarian personality patterns are observable in children by age ten. #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 650
• Children can trigger deep shame precisely because their demands are childish #exemplifies (0.72) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 102