Willow and Jaden Smith are living proof that a super-permissive set of parents can churn out some spacey kids. Will Smith believes that children should be given a lot of control at an early age, which is the way that Scientologists raise their children. The Smiths founded a now-defunct school that used CO$ teaching methods; so the little bit of formal education that Jaden and Willow have received has been Scientology-based.
These kids no longer go to school even though Willow is still 14, and Jaden is 16. He regularly tweets nonsensical blather, including telling his followers that school is a “tool to brainwash the youth,” and babies are more intelligent than adults. That last part sounds very CO$, which believes that children are simply adult souls trapped in younger bodies.
I’m not making fun of Jaden’s intelligence. He hasn’t received regular schooling, and it shows. Jaden and Willow have been allowed to do whatever they want for a long time. They both have new albums this month, so the NYT’s T mag profiled them, and it’s a doozy. The whole interview is here. Willow claims to be really into quantum physics, which was of interest to L. Ron Hubbard as he wrote the sci-fi novels that form the basis of Scientology. Former upper-echelon CO$ member Marty Rathbun has written at length about how quantum physics can be useful in “understanding” CO$.
The NYT journo only asks a few questions of Willow and Jaden, and they run a bizarre relay-monologue that continues unabated. Willow goes off on tangents like this: “And the feeling of being like, this is a fragment of a holographic reality that a higher consciousness made.” Then they start talking about controlling time:
On time
WILLOW: “I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.
JADEN: “It’s proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It’s relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.”
WILLOW: “Because living.”
JADEN: “Right, because you have to live. There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.”
On breathing:
WILLOW: “Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.”
JADEN: “When babies are born, their soft spots bump: It has, like, a heartbeat in it. That’s because energy is coming through their body, up and down.”
WILLOW: “Prana energy.”
JADEN: “It’s prana energy because they still breathe through their stomach. They remember. Babies remember.”
WILLOW: “When they’re in the stomach, they’re so aware, putting all their bones together, putting all their ligaments together. But they’re shocked by this harsh world.”
JADEN: “By the chemicals and things, and then slowly…”
WILLOW: “As they grow up, they start losing.”
JADEN: “You know, they become just like us.”
On careers
JADEN: “What’s your job, what’s your career? Nah, I am. I’m going to imprint myself on everything in this world.”
School is the unlearning of things:
JADEN: “Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.”
WILLOW: “They never want to do anything, they’re so tired.”
JADEN: “You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.”
WILLOW: “I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, ‘Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.’ But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.”
JADEN: “I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.”
WILLOW: “I think by the time we’re 30 or 20, we’re going to be climbing as many mountains as we can possibly climb.”
[From NYT – T Magazine]
Praise Xenu, these kids’ words read like robotic gibberish. They don’t know why babies’ soft spots exist, and they’re “in the stomach“? *shakes head* Jaden’s logic on how driver’s ed doesn’t prevent accidents is sad. That’s like saying doctors shouldn’t exist because people still die every day. Come to think of it, Scientologists don’t believe in medical care. They also believe that car accidents only happen to people who hang with non-CO$ types (suppressive persons). Jaden wants to be “the most durable person on the planet,” which may have something to do with the Clear (or practically immortal) state. I don’t know where the “prana” fixation fits in with the CO$. That word originated from in Hindu philosophy, and quantum physics grabbed onto the term.
Will and Jada have the freedom to raise (or not raise) their kids however they see fit. They’re doing Willow and Jaden a huge disservice, but there’s enough family money to pad these kids’ lives (and therapy sessions) forever. What bothers me is that Jaden and Willow make music that kids listen to. My teenage daughter has heard a few of Willow’s songs and enjoyed them. We’ve looked at Jaden’s crazy tweets together and discussed. Normal parents must work overtime when influential, lazy parents like Will and Jada Smith let their own kids talk smack about education.
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