Attention seeking children need a scold

The one who cries wolf does not really know risk . He only knows the name of the fear .
Fine if this behavior comes from children - its natural enough.
We all know the scary nature of that noise when it comes from a child . That's fine - we will teach em out of it
But some kids never grow up.


What if half the country is run by noisy children ?, Those like Skimpole who know so much that they command attention , but know so little they can't help manage the simplest of risks .
This group know so much they can hide,  as they  have learned to do ,  behind their  encyclopedic volume of facts.  Skipholes are nothng if not well educated and well spoken  everywhere advocating fact checking but nowhere to be seen on the ground with the implementation of their ideas . Like Skimpole they live inside the house . Worse they are parasites on the productive in the house

Watch out for them and the tendency to be a cynical smart arse yourself









Denial  is far distraction and projection are more common in our lives than we are prepared to accept . Our experience with young children should have warned us , The terrible thin is there are children out there who have never gron For example We  can all  hide our cynicism with a veneer of care,  as so many characters in Dickens do . Swimming in shit that is often well dressed  (T. Dalrymple )
Its easy to project denial on others when , for example  95% of the people say " you don't care about the amount of hot air we generate  "of  the 5% of Climate Change deniers.  Not so easy when  a child in our house reminds us we too are guilty.
Cheeky brat know alls at age 14 are one thing  ( quite normal ) , but NAbrats at 40 are worse than useless - unrepentant  they just live to erode and corrode
Presumably Skim pole was told many times to stop living on his cultivated cynicism. excusing his false fears and incompetency and lazy life and thinking when it suited him .
The Skimpole club has grown -many do you know who hide their lazy and noisy parasitism in a cloud of cynical conversational-ism; such   people have no trouble finding "friends ".
The fact is that not only was he a noise making nuisance his parasitism and compliance in nuisance made him even more unproductive  than he would have been if he didn't cultivate friends or at least other cynics who could hide with him . Easy to buy some more food for talk from the frenzy that reigns when its all talk - who knows or cares whether it really goes anywhere - so often point scoring for pedants 
We all ought to examine ourselves to see whether such a wasted life ( and silly knowing smile of safe cynicism)   is something we will be remembered for .

Those children who never grow up need a scold from more than one Esther if they not to break the bank in their own home . let alone the one we share .