@birnim@fosstodon.org @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org That was just my take on cringey sarcasm, sry.
On a serious note, there was this Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (Or was it Solovyev? I've read it literally decades ago), in one of his works he had this twisted idea that in order to raise a philosopher you don't have to encourage learning, quite the opposite — you have to hide books from the child and even resort to violence.
There's also a hypothesis that comedians owe their sense of humour to their shitty childhoods
@birnim@fosstodon.org @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org When I was a child, I did a lot of stuff that proved zero immediate practical value — maybe it didn't work because no one tried hard enough? But what if I can? To prove that it can be done — well, you catch my drift.
@birnim@fosstodon.org @safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I don't remember where I've picked the last one from, probably Scott Sedita's book on comedic characters or some documentary, but that was not the first time I've encountered it.
As for picking thing that prove useful — that would be to practical to have anything to do with real humans. Kids have no concept of practical value and parents are often far from what we condider "being adult" to provice proper guidance — the have ambitions and frustrations of their own.