This is an animated film I made back in college. This was back when I was majoring in Elementary Education, and half-heartedly planning on becoming a "teacher" in the public schooling system in the United States. Our final project one semester was to "pick a philosophy" of all the prevalent teaching philosophies at the time, and this really bothered me. I had already been reading a bit about unschooling at the time, was tripping out on Anthony DeMello's fantastic book Awareness, and A.S. Neill's Summerhill. Things were beginning to shake loose for me, and it was really a kind of internal awakening and inner revolution, when I look back.

That may sound cliche or extreme. I'm not sure. All I know is that when I made this video, it was about so much more than "teaching philosophies." Thanks to the books I was reading, one or two unorthodox professors, and the season being ripe inside of me for growth and shedding of false skin and cultural programming, I was dropping religious guilt and body shame, and getting fed up with the labels we slap on everything to define our worlds. This is especially toxic when it comes to labeling other human beings. Anyway, I sincerely hope you will enjoy the movie. It is something I created that I remain proud of and generally satisfied with to this day.

~KafkA

(All songs in video used under artistic freedom/fair use. These are not my original songs.)

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Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as DLive and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)

My video is at DLive