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Children of Dominance ~
The infant is born or summoned through a portal of living flesh into an environment of exposure. The infant recognizes this sudden exposure, the removal of absolute shelter, support, and protection. It is vulnerable, a tiny naked mass of flesh incapable of any task of self-protection or devices of survival bar one. It wails. Its call is both a demand and a plea cast against those present. The voice of the infant is enormously powerful, heard deep within the automatic programming of the adult mind, the power of its demand and plea dwarfing all other sounds, thoughts, and considerations. The adult mind that 'hears' that infant is both submissive to the needs of that infant and Dominant in the protection of that infant. The adult mind that 'hears' the infant cannot 'refuse' the command demand of the infant voice to cover, shelter, support, and protect the infant. The adult mind that hears the infant cannot 'refuse' the plea beseeching love, charity, cherishment (the enticements), and the desire to be allowed to live, to survive in that Dominant's world. The infant instinctively understands that its current position requires an immediate alignment with power and strength - its choice within that instinctive structure is toward the only mode available to it, as a submissive juvenile human. The choice and the mode represent its best chance of survival to adulthood. To the infant, all humans present are by maturation processes Dominant (to or over the infant), or capable of destructive actions against the infant.
Other forms of birth, such as immediate Domination, may be the induction of the infant into an organized religious structure. The infant both directly and indirectly observes that those necessary for its survival are submissive within the religious structure, indicating to that infant that the religious structure is a 'superior Dominant' form, or even more dangerous to the survival of the infant than its immediate Dominants. This 'superior Dominant' must then, by definition, be 'handled' or 'managed' by the infant in a manner most conducive to that infant's continuation of life. This 'management' of religious structure may take the form of submissive devotion to the teachings or directives of the ideology of the religion, or even to the personal devotion of the infant/child to any individual they 'recognize' as representative of the 'superior Dominant' form, such as a priest.
This process continues until the child reaches a level of personal maturity or evaluation of a minimum independent survivability state that allows the child the opportunity to choose. This latter choice or choices are governed in part by a recognition or determination by the child that one or more of those previously held by the child in a position of Dominance may no longer be necessarily held in that position. The child will release itself from submission to those in Domination over it as soon as it recognizes that the previous Dominant position is no longer valid or necessary for the child's continued survival. This process of release continues until the child openly recognizes no authority or power over its own, at which point the child becomes capable and executes independent action no longer governed or in consideration of the will, needs, or desires of others. This final release is recognized as a fully realized or actualized adult state. At this point, the child has accepted Domination of itself, by itself, and considers submission to its own needs to be held in priority to the needs of others.
This final actualized adult state may occur long after the appearance of maturity propels the child into a person recognized by others to be an adult. Some adult children never fully release themselves from those in Domination over them from birth and continue to respond and have their actions governed by the potential responses of those Dominants to any action that the adult child may take. To some, this inability to release is representative of 'great fear' of retribution, death, or even damnation. The adult child may view this forcibly maintained bond with enormous anger and pain, becoming contemptuous of themselves and their inability to escape control or permanent lifelong bondage or enslavement to the thoughts, ideas, and needs of others.
The actualized adult may remove themselves from the immediate vicinity of their former Dominant structures to stabilize and strengthen their own internal dominant voice. When they have attained a state of personal balance or believe themselves to be no longer responsive to the 'command' words of former Dominants, then they will often seek an adult-to-adult relationship with that Dominant based on personal desire, not on duty or expectation.
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