: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
: The Use and Misuse of Children
: Sekoala Publishing Company (Pty) Ltd
: 9780994721228
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Using his wit, his rare ability to see through the lies that we sane human beings tell each other in order to hide our selfishness, and his courage to call a spade a spade, which is without a doubt rarely found in someone who makes a living from speaking or writing, Mokokoma Mokhonoana, author of Divided& Conquered and writer of not a few worldview-altering aphorisms, lucidly explores the use and misuse of children by human beings and things such as Mother Nature, religions and churches, countries, and companies.


Among other things, Mokokoma, using brief and potent sentences, touches on the real reason or reasons why you were intentionally brought into this troubled world. Or why your mother, if you were conceived unintentionally, did not order, ask, or beg someone to end your life way before you had to be pushed or pulled out of her womb.

THE HUMAN USE OF CHILDREN

Unlike the last part, this last part of the book is, needless to say, not made up of the use of children by Mother Nature, and that is the only reason why it is way longer than the last part. For no reason other than for the sake of orderliness, this third and last part is divided into the following parts: (1) The Use of Children by Society; (2) The Use of Girls by Men; (3) The Use of Children by Companies; (4) The Use of Children by Children; (5) The Use of Children by Adults; (6) The Use of Children by Grandparents; (7) The Use of Children by Parents; (8) The Ideal Human Being; (9) Abortion, Suicide, Homosexuality, and Masturbation; (10) Childless versus Childfree; (11) Antinatalism; (12) Childlessness and Selfishness; and (13) Negative Reviews of a Product Called Child.

It goes without saying that I would have still been able to explore the very same subjects and to say the very same things if I had divided this part of the book into fewer parts. And that is, of course, because all parents, for example, are part of a society, and, in many if not most societies, many if not most parents are each part of at least one company; and companies, as we all know, use their employees during their endeavours to provide and/or to produce whatever services and/or products that all or some people need, or, as it is the case in many a case, services and/or products that their shareholders want all or some sane people to want.

Two other facts that are as plain as the nose on the reader’s face (or my face if the reader does not have a nose) but are worth mentioning nonetheless are that: (1) we human beings of today do not use children to achieve some of the things that all or some of the people who were children when my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were children were used to achieve; and (2) some of the ways that we human beings of today use children would definitely be deemed not only bizarre but also distasteful by any randomly selected sane adult that was born centuries ago, if we were to somehow do to their corpse, or rather skeleton, what is believed by most Christians to have been done to Jesus Christ’s corpse three days and three nights after he was crucified.

The Use of Children by Society

As Margaret Thatcher is said to have reminded us, there is, of course, no such thing as society. As we all know, you cannot really see or destroy society, you can only see or destroy “the aggregate of [individuals] living together in a more or less ordered community” or “the community of [individuals] living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations” or “the totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals.”

Like I did in the previous part of this book with nature and whatever or whoever to whom the creation of the universe is attributable, I will, in this very last part of this book, personify society. What’s more, I will, as an attempt to minimize confusion, capitalize the pronouns with which I will be referring to society. Obviously, doing that would be confusing if I refer to society as a male, since that is how many if not most of the people who wi