America at least already attempts, futilely, to our detriment I believe, to do so with its incredibly bureaucratic and hierarchical institutions. You either surrender your child to the maw of the state or you&#x27;re rich enough to buy your own resources for your child though mental wellness of kids at such high powered schools tend to be bad too; I don&#x27;t think the rich can buy their way to better schooling either. All of this is a &#x27;consensus&#x27; of some sort.<p>The consensus I would like to see is one of decentralization and autonomy: Autonomy for children, autonomy for teachers, autonomy for communities to take care of their children as they see fit, where their consensus is reached by their own methods; let us imagine a truly democratic means of human organization.<p>Under our current systems, children are seen as barely anything more than property of parents who must obey the regulations of a government that sees children as manpower and the grist to feed the economy. At best a child can belong to a family with wealth to manage, where they can be elevated to the status of capital investment.<p>Am I being too cynical? I am clearly ignoring all the wonderful things we think about children. But that&#x27;s the point. The all-suffocating grip of our economics and our politics squeezes the humanity and color out of every body.