Sounds like a cold and dismal story of souls lost and void of hope.
As far as conditioning goes, first as a parent, I never felt as if I was conditioning my children…but teaching them with love about the life and world we live in. I do understand that this is subject to interpertation but most parents, I believe, are truly doing what they do out of love even though it my be misguided at times.
Secondly, as a grandparent, I have tried to not go against the direction or instruction of my grandchildren by their parents. At times I have made this a hard thing to do, simply because I have made mountains out of molehills and see the wasted time and efforts.
There is a point in ALL lives, young and old, when we gain freedom and lose it. Humanity must be free to survive and thrive with as little interference as possible, only the can a world be both BRAVE and TRUE.
I have never seen what I do as conditioning either, but that is what we are doing whether we realize it or not. The realization of that is what has kept me very anxious about how Reagan will ultimately turn out.
It was a cold and dismal story in places, but overall it just made me thankful that we don’t live in a world without beauty, without art, without self-expression and freedom.