A while ago, there was a piece of news that briefly shook on the hot search, and then sank into the sea of information.
And I had the heart to continue to pay attention, but I never saw the news of these children later:
#河南一戒网瘾学校多名学生遭虐待殴打#
I don't know if you can get the point that shocked me, but what made me creepy was not only the second half of the sentence, but also the first half of the sentence.
A quarter of the 21st century has passed, and the "Internet addiction school" still exists?
But reading this sprinkling report, every detail is so real that it hurts.
The ghosts of "Yang Yongxin" still linger in the shadows of this world.
Source: Beiqing Shen Yi
It just so happened that in the past two days, I was watching a Netflix documentary on related topics: "In the Name of Love: The Inside Story of the Juvenile Correction Program".
Miraculously, I actually saw a "sense of chivalry" in it:
There is a group of girls who met in a closed correctional facility and have never woken up from a nightmare for years.
So they returned to this traumatized site, put on their old school uniforms, and deliberately did things that were considered taboo at the time.
Of course, they do more than that.
They search for evidence, interview the parties, trace the industrial chain, and peel back the cocoons of old cases.
In order to completely expose the darkness behind the word "correction" and rescue more children like them.
Oh yes, even this documentary was made by their own hands.
Today, we will follow their lens into this dark depth.
All around us, this persecution "in the name of love" has never gone away.
kidnap
In 2004, Catherine, in the midst of her adolescent rebellion, was sent to a conservative church high school, but did not stay long.
A few months later, she was expelled for violating school rules: drinking some limoncello.
She expected the consequences, but she didn't expect that she would be handcuffed by two strangers and taken to a new "school" overnight:
Ivy Ridge College.
The reason for this is that none of the conditions of the word "school" can be met.
The "teachers" here never carry out teaching tasks, but only enforce illegal control and corporal punishment on the children.
And the "school director" and the boss behind the scenes are both illiterate people who can misspell the fourth-level words.
In view of the fact that in recent years, pyramid schemes, wire fraud, gangsters, and cults have all been popular topics in film and television, so I do not plan to introduce more about their forms of operation.
In short, they are using the same manipulation techniques that mix brainwashing, corporal punishment, humiliation, and mind control.
The "school rules" will even be refined down to excretion and expression, with the aim of completely destroying the will and freedom of the individual.
Catherine recalls that she was ordered to sleep in a hallway with the lights on, with her hands straight up.
This sleeping position is designed for children who are emotionally strong against it, as it prevents them from committing suicide by cutting their wrists.
No one knows exactly how many victims there were.
Katie, who is dedicated to sorting out the original archives of Ivy Ridge College, has more than 1,700 documents in her hands, piled up in two rooms, and the youngest victim is as young as 7 years old.
And according to academics and politicians, juvenile correction is a multibillion-dollar industry, with hundreds of thousands of people kidnapped each year in the United States alone.
And the leaders behind the scenes, who have been donating money to the Conservative Party for many years, have been gaining political asylum.
In 2005, Quentin led all the students in a riot and escape, but they were all found and repatriated, and the 12 leading people were even arrested and prosecuted, and no group sided with them.
And when the media asked Quentin how he felt when he was in prison, his answer was:
Simply a 5 star Hilton hotel.
Many people tend to think that juveniles who are sent to such correctional facilities have some problems of their own, but Ivy Ridge College data proves that there is no specific standard for victims.
After all, the name of "correction" is so complex, from the most basic Internet addiction, to alcohol and drug addiction, and even the treatment of autism, depression, and social disorders, almost any child can easily sit in the right seat.
Another documentary, "In the Name of Love: Gay Correction Therapy", revealed that even in developed societies, "gay correction" is still a huge black industry, and its influence has spread to the mainland.
The most ironic thing is that the core characters of these institutions are not only mostly illiterate, scoundrels, and social scum without any qualifications.
There are also many practitioners of the "crime" they oppose.
A world-class rare animal: anti-homosexual lesbians
When I learned about the victims, I was amazed at how peaceful they were.
At least, the "revisit of the old land" does not seem to bother them.
They playfully mimicked the caustic tone of the school supervisors, ate and talked naturally with supervisors who had abused them in the past, and even laughed and performed the previous corporal punishment program.
They were forced to do this "crash exercise" for up to eight hours
So where is the real shadow of the victim?
Imagine something like this:
Several strong men in black came to the door in handcuffs
Parents stood by the doorway
You'll be woken up at three in the morning
These people catch you
You don't know what's going on
You ask your parents for help, but they stand by and watch
You've been taken away by the men in black, and you don't know where you're going
Their deepest shadow is not in the institution, but in the home they are looking forward to day and night.
The betrayal of parents and the acquiescence to this open abduction are lifelong wounds.
Love?
In the aftermath of these scams, parents who have been deceived are often outraged and immediately enter the identity of defenders.
At this time, they will imagine that they and their children are standing together again, but in fact, the children hate the parents more.
This kind of family gap is also difficult to bridge.
Of course, we first blame the intrigues of the correctional institutions.
In order to prove to parents that their children need to be "corrected", they are good at fabricating fake drug and pregnancy test results, which makes parents feel like they are enemies.
This is not a unique case, but a global trick.
The main enrollment channel of the Henan Internet Rehabilitation Institution mentioned above is through the recommendation of school teachers, psychiatrists and psychological counselors, and the institution will pay them a "referral fee".
One can imagine how easily these people can make up "questions" for their children.
Source: Beiqing Shen Yi
Contrary to intuition, it is the parents that correctional institutions want to manipulate the most.
And in order to escape quickly, almost all the children who are slandered will admit their "crimes" under high pressure.
Drug abuse, prostitution, promiscuity......
They first bear this horrific list of accusations, and then try to act out the appearance of the "prodigal son" in the hope of gaining recognition.
However, under the business logic of the institution, retaining students is the way to make money, so how can there be such a thing as "graduation"?
The scam thus becomes a never-ending loop.
But can we say that parents are just deceived?
I always think that people should respect the original intention of each love and face the origin of each hate.
The words "in the name of love" are actually the most ridiculous excuses in the world.
Is love giving up on children and pinning hopes on a group of kidnappers?
Convincing is not as good as bullshit.
Years after returning to her normal life, Catherine still chose to cut ties with her father.
It's not that time can't heal the wound, it's her father's years of avoidance that have exacerbated it.
Children who are lucky enough to survive are often unable to reconcile with this incongruity for the rest of their lives.
The more the children hate, the more they prove that they value family affection, and they are obsessed with finding reasons and grounds for this abandonment in order to cross the threshold in their hearts.
But this is destined to be a fruitless obsession, and they will only fall deeper and deeper and lose all trust in human nature.
On the parents' side, if they repeatedly hide under the pretext of "love" and refuse to reflect, or even claim to be victims, it will only make the tragedy worse.
I will never forget the image of Catherine determined to reconcile with her father.
The first thing she said when she saw her father again:
I hope you don't mind me videotaping
But given what you've done to me before
I felt the need for me to record everything
lest you find a stranger to hide in the bushes and prepare to kidnap me
The "love" of parents can in some cases be enough to turn into a lifelong nightmare for a child.
And after that?
It is nothing more than an apology, silence, reconciliation.
But you and I both know that there is no real reconciliation in the world, only unilateral compromises.
vacuum
A newborn child is first in the power of his mother and not in the power of others, and as a result, she can raise or abandon him according to her own will, according to her own rights...... The condition is that he will obey her.
...... She renounced her rights by abandoning him, and thus the obligations owed to her by her procreation were canceled by the act of abandonment.
- Hobbes, On Citizenship
Fu Kuan was also a victim of the Henan Internet Martial Arts Agency.
He developed obsessive-compulsive disorder in high school, and his mother introduced him to orthotherapy.
It is conceivable that the situation of Fu Kuan has repeatedly deteriorated. Now he is almost incapacitated, confined to an autistic state, and even more resistant to communicating with his mother.
His mother's reaction was: Should you force him to go to the hospital?
Source: Beiqing Shen Yi
I would describe Fu Kuan's state as an "emotional vacuum".
From the moment he found out that he had been betrayed by his mother, the most precious family affection lost its value to him, and his heart was forever empty, just enough to accommodate the invasion of all kinds of evil.
Few people have noticed that the "correctional institutions" are a natural pedophile paradise.
The children first felt abandoned by the world, and then fell into the hands of some of the most mind-manipulative demons.
Under a series of inducements, they can even make the child take the initiative to dedicate himself.
At this time, the assault and indecency become a false supplement to the absent family affection.
It's a torture that goes deep into the soul.
What breaks my heart even more is that the documentary seems to present extreme cases, but this sad and helpless emotion is so easy to empathize.
It actually mirrors the dilemma of all intergenerational relationships in the world.
I think of the pair of East Asian parents in "Adolescent Nezha".
The son Xiaokang was in the rebellious period of youth, so his mother went to the temple to ask for a spirit talisman to press under his mattress (a pile had been pressed before), and boiled the talisman water into the dish for her son to eat.
She believes that as long as she does this, the gods will bless the well-off to be obedient and filial.
Cai Mingliang "Young Nezha"
As a result, the well-off was blessed to diarrhea that night.
When Xiaokang was in the toilet, he happened to hear the conversation of his parents in the living room:
The fairy aunt said that your son is the incarnation of Nezha
No wonder your father and son have such a bad relationship
Do you know who Nezha hates the most?
It's too classic.
East Asian parents tend to interfere with their children in matters that are most concerning their personal will, and they are always busy getting rid of the issues that really require their participation, communication and understanding.
They are accustomed to treating their children as captives, who can only command, but cannot pull down their faces to communicate on an equal footing.
Therefore, they will choose to "abandon adoption" before many contradictions:
Let these thorny issues be solved outside of family affection, and you only need to spend money and wait, and you can skip the most laborious process of "education".
Pray for a moment of manifestation from the gods.
Violence instead of communication.
Or "trade in the old" directly through kidnapping.
This is all about rejecting the responsibility of childcare and trying to achieve the goal by shortcuts.
The parents of one of the victims in Henan Province falsified a mental illness diagnosis with the institution in order to suspend their child's school.
What creeps me out is this quote from him:
I am afraid that the evaluation results of the hospital will come out and say that there is no problem with the child.
They were afraid that the child would not be sick, but they never considered that it was they who were sick.
Source: Beiqing Shen Yi
Thankfully, the sins of Ivy Ridge are a thing of the past, and the prison that once held thousands of young lives is now in ruins.
Catherine had read The Count of Monte Cristo there, and she imagined herself like the hero of the novel, who was imprisoned for a while, but who would eventually take revenge.
Later, she really made this documentary and became her own Count of Monte Cristo.
On the ruins of hell, he drank the limoncello he sent here with his friends.
BUT I STILL HAVE LINGERING THOUGHTS ON THE STORY OF NIKKI, THE OTHER VICTIM IN THE FILM.
At the age of 17, she was sent to a correctional facility called the "House by the Sea", where she was tortured to the point of incontinence and loss of dignity within a few days.
What is touching is that at that time, there were continuous reports from well-meaning people, and finally the "Seaside House" was ordered to close.
What is terrifying is that those children who should have been rescued were assigned to different branch schools by the "Seaside House" to continue correction.
THE PLACE WHERE NIKKI WENT WAS CALLED IVY RIDGE COLLEGE.
I've had a dream within a dream, waking up from one nightmare and finding myself in another, and the despair is indescribable.
But I didn't expect it to exist in the real world.
Hobbes said, "There is no essential difference between a child's acknowledgment of his mother's dominion in order to save his own life and what a vanquished man does in the time of defeat."
It is the great absurdity of human nature that child-rearing becomes slavery.
As long as there is a vacuum of intergenerational relationships in the world, there will still be abandoned teenagers.
Tragedy will not end until adults really learn to take responsibility.