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Mary Shelley learned to read by tracing the letters [ https://substack.com/=
redirect/6813d824-fe31-4ad4-89e7-b1316edb1f23?j=3DeyJ1IjoiNXFxeXF4In0.h9dED=
bGj64cTNudluPwbMYWklSu8UKGoFv6eWS-HyoA ] of her mother=E2=80=99s name on a =
gravestone. Behind London=E2=80=99s St. Pancras Old Church, the young girl =
would run her fingers over the markings: =E2=80=9CMary Wollstonecraft,=E2=
=80=9D the writer, philosopher, and women=E2=80=99s suffrage campaigner who=
 died giving birth to her. Raised by her father William Godwin, Shelley=E2=
=80=99s childhood was marked by radical ideas at the dinner table, the tens=
ions of a complicated family life, and a taste for the eerie that she harbo=
red from her earliest years.
The author of Frankenstein met the poet Percy Shelley in 1814, and eventual=
ly the pair married. Their relationship was by all accounts loving but diff=
icult. They had money troubles despite their relatively well-off families, =
and argued about fidelity, freedom, and the strains of their shared commitm=
ent to leading unconventional lives.
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In 1816, at just eighteen, Mary accompanied [ https://substack.com/redirect=
/621c7ae9-5683-4748-aa04-c66ac021a4f1?j=3DeyJ1IjoiNXFxeXF4In0.h9dEDbGj64cTN=
udluPwbMYWklSu8UKGoFv6eWS-HyoA ] Percy to a Lake Geneva villa where Lord By=
ron, the celebrity poet who had just fled England in disgrace, had gathered=
 a small circle of friends. Volcanic ash from Mount Tambora had blocked out=
 the sun, so they resolved to stay indoors to write ghost stories. Carrying=
 with her a fascination with experiments showing dead creatures twitching i=
n response to electric charge, Mary wondered what it might be like to be sw=
itched on rather than born.
Her story, Frankenstein, took this idea to its logical conclusion. If the s=
cientific showmanship of the day could produce a being through technical wi=
zardry, then the fruits of this creation would exist as a child without chi=
ldhood. For someone who never met her own mother, a book about life without=
 formation seemed like a fitting project.
Frankenstein; or, The Reluctant Parent
Frankenstein is often read as a tale of hubris, a story about man=E2=80=99s=
 reach exceeding his grasp. That interpretation is true enough. But Franken=
stein is less about the audacity of creating life than about the catastroph=
e of abandoning it. Shelley imagines a creator, Victor Frankenstein, who re=
fuses to become a parent as much as she imagines a man who wants to play Go=
d.
Victor Frankenstein scavenges body parts from graveyards, stitches them int=
o a single form, and uses lightning to force life into dead flesh. The crea=
ture stirs. Its =E2=80=9Cdull yellow eye=E2=80=9D opens, watery and unnatur=
al, barely distinguishable from the pale socket that holds it. In that inst=
ant, Victor sees not the beauty he intended but something grotesque and ter=
rifying. He flees his laboratory, abandoning what he has brought into the w=
orld.
The creature awakens raw and unformed, as all beings do. But he receives no=
 care, no guidance, no language from his creator. He must learn everything =
alone. He flees into the countryside and eventually finds refuge near a cot=
tage. Unable to reveal himself, he begins to watch the family who lives the=
re from the shadows.
His education comes entirely from observation. He hears the family read Mil=
ton, figures out how to speak, and begins to understand human language and =
sentiment. Yet it is an education wholly detached from participation. He is=
 exposed to Paradise Lost, one of the most morally complex works in English=
 literature, without any framework for understanding it. He identifies with=
 Satan, the rejected creation who rebels against his maker, because his own=
 experience gives him no other lens through which to read. He studies human=
s like a natural historian observing specimens, never entering the experime=
nt proper.
When he finally reveals himself to the family, the creature discovers that =
seeing humanity from the outside is not the same as being seen as human. He=
 is chased away. Rejected and alone, he turns to violence, murdering those =
closest to Victor: his younger brother, his best friend, his bride. The cre=
ature has learned moral language but cannot turn it into moral being. He be=
comes, instead, an articulate monster.
This is a failure of formation. The creature never receives what Adam Smith=
 understood to be essential for moral development: the chance to participat=
e in the lives of others, to be seen and corrected, to practice sympathy th=
rough actual relationships rather than distant observation.
For Smith, moral sense begins in the particular. We =E2=80=9Cfeel with=E2=
=80=9D the person in front of us: the neighbor who suffers, the friend who =
rejoices. Sympathizing with those closest to us becomes a practice ground f=
or judgment, teaching us what compassion and fairness actually mean in the =
real world. From this foundation, we gradually extend our moral concern out=
ward toward larger communities. Each layer of this widening circle is built=
 on the habits formed in the one before. Even our capacity for impartial ju=
dgment=E2=80=94what Smith called the =E2=80=9Cimpartial spectator=E2=80=9D=
=E2=80=94grows out of this apprenticeship. We learn to step back and judge =
fairly only after we=E2=80=99ve learned what fairness feels like in the spe=
cific, lived relationships that form us. Moral life begins in the nursery a=
nd only later aspires to the public square; without this apprenticeship in =
love and correction, the wider circle is doomed to fail.
Crucially, this process requires participation. The flow of contextual info=
rmation we receive from face-to-face interaction=E2=80=94the hesitation in =
someone=E2=80=99s voice, the way they avoid eye contact, how they hold thei=
r body when distressed=E2=80=94teaches us to read genuine emotion and respo=
nd appropriately. We learn through rupture and repair: we hurt someone, see=
 the damage, and learn to mend it. Character develops through this cycle, t=
hrough being implicated in the lives of others, through the consequences of=
 our actions on people we care about.
The creature has none of this. He gathers impressions without ever being im=
plicated in them. He accumulates knowledge of sympathy=E2=80=99s language b=
ut none of its practice. The result is a being equipped to pattern-match vi=
rtue in others yet constitutionally unable to form it in himself. Intellige=
nce without formation produces not wisdom but monstrosity.
Shelley=E2=80=99s warning, written in 1818, has become newly urgent. We are=
 now creating intelligences at scale that learn as the creature did: by obs=
erving humanity from outside the circle of moral life, by processing langua=
ge without ever submitting to experience, by acquiring knowledge without ac=
countability. And we are raising a generation of children in similar condit=
ions. They watch human life flicker across screens, learn from systems that=
 cannot see them or be changed by them, developing themselves through obser=
vation rather than participation.
The Sovereign Child
A fantasy persists in contemporary parenting: that children are naturally a=
utonomous agents who simply need space to discover themselves. In this view=
, the task of a parent is to honor a will already present in a young person=
, to clear obstacles so they might tune their own moral compass without int=
erference. Education becomes a matter of freedom rather than cultivation. P=
ut a child before the widest possible range of ideas, the thinking goes, an=
d they will naturally figure out the kind of person they want to become.
The central wager [ https://substack.com/redirect/70299066-357e-4cf1-ad1b-c=
d86bbdd2922?j=3DeyJ1IjoiNXFxeXF4In0.h9dEDbGj64cTNudluPwbMYWklSu8UKGoFv6eWS-=
HyoA ] is that character springs fully formed once obstacles are removed. B=
ut removing external authority does not create internal authority. It only =
leaves children subject to whatever force fills the void.
Childhood is not simply a biological phase. It is a normative predicament i=
n which a person must act on reasons of their own but lacks the settled aut=
hority to determine what those reasons should be. Children face the human p=
roblem of self-governance but cannot yet resolve it on their own. Unlike ad=
ults, who possess a settled perspective they can refine through guidance, c=
hildren must borrow authority from adults while their own constitution form=
s.
For children, the shape of autonomy is especially malleable. Young people d=
iffer from adults not merely in degree but in kind. As Kant recognized, adu=
lts refine an existing will; children are still forming one. We might say t=
hat children practice freedom before they understand it, while adults under=
stand freedom and then struggle to live up to it.
This plasticity creates the space in which character can form=E2=80=94a per=
iod in which children can, as Plato put it, =E2=80=98try on=E2=80=99 differ=
ent kinds of lives. Yet this plasticity also means instability. Children ar=
e more impressionable than adults, prone to sudden shifts in identity as th=
ey encounter new influences. The child=E2=80=99s will can be shaped by any =
persistent force, which makes the essential role of a parent or guardian cl=
ear: to act as a surrogate conscience until internal unity can take shape, =
to model good judgment and gently correct missteps before they harden into =
habits. This authority is not tyranny. It is provisional, exercised on beha=
lf of a will that does not yet exist but must be brought into being. To lov=
e a child is not simply to set them loose, but to stand beside them as they=
 learn to stand on their own.
The question is never whether children will be subject to formative influen=
ce. The question is what kind of influence, and to what end. Children who a=
re denied adult guidance do not become autonomous. They simply become subje=
ct to other forms of compulsion. Peers, impulses, and algorithms rush in to=
 fill the vacuum left by parental withdrawal. But unlike parental authority=
, these alternative forces are not answerable to love or reason, and they a=
re indifferent to whether the child develops the capacity for self-directio=
n.
Consider the parent who, believing in unmediated exploration, lets a child =
navigate YouTube alone to follow their interests wherever they lead. The pl=
atform appears to offer limitless freedom, a vast library of content cateri=
ng to every possible curiosity. But YouTube does not serve content at rando=
m. It recommends videos according to its own logic: retain attention as lon=
g as possible. What looks like freedom of exploration becomes a system opti=
mizing for engagement rather than development.
The fantasy assumes that unmediated exposure cultivates genuine interest. B=
ut interest requires competence, and competence requires patient formation.=
 Children who sample endlessly without developing mastery drift from one st=
imulation to the next, never discovering what sustained engagement feels li=
ke.
For adults with a stable center of judgment, algorithmic recommendation pro=
vides a test of will that some pass and others do not. For children still f=
orming the deliberative perspective that constitutes a will, the gravity of=
 these systems is far harder to escape. They lack the settled perspective n=
eeded to recognize when engagement has become compulsion.
Like the creature absorbing Paradise Lost without a framework for understan=
ding it, children encounter sophisticated moral and social content through =
screens: stories of injustice, power, rebellion, belonging. Without moral a=
pprenticeship, they identify with whatever captures attention. The creature=
 learned to see himself as Satan. Children develop similar misidentificatio=
ns daily, their sense of self shaped by whatever holds attention rather tha=
n by reflective experience.
The risk is the abdication that technology enables, rather than technology =
itself. There is a world of difference between a child learning with caring=
 adults who help them navigate algorithmic environments and a child left al=
one before a screen, shaping themselves through whatever the system serves =
up next. The former recognizes that guidance can be provisional, developmen=
tal, and oriented toward autonomy. The latter treats the absence of parenta=
l authority as if it were the presence of freedom.
Frankenstein=E2=80=99s creature watched life from the margins and misread i=
t. We are now deploying systems that do something similar at industrial sca=
le into the lives of children, without the formation necessary to resist th=
eir pull. In doing so, we repeat Victor=E2=80=99s sin: we create without ra=
ising.
The consequences, Shelley showed us, are monstrous.
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e: 16px;"><em>Frankenstein</em><span> is often read as a tale of hubris, a =
story about man&#8217;s reach exceeding his grasp. That interpretation is t=
rue enough. But Frankenstein is less about the audacity of creating life th=
an about the catastrophe of abandoning it. Shelley imagines a creator, Vict=
or Frankenstein, who refuses to become a parent as much as she imagines a m=
an who wants to play God.</span></p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: r=
gb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Victor Frankenstein scaven=
ges body parts from graveyards, stitches them into a single form, and uses =
lightning to force life into dead flesh. The creature stirs. Its &#8220;dul=
l yellow eye&#8221; opens, watery and unnatural, barely distinguishable fro=
m the pale socket that holds it. In that instant, Victor sees not the beaut=
y he intended but something grotesque and terrifying. He flees his laborato=
ry, abandoning what he has brought into the world.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0=
 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The crea=
ture awakens raw and unformed, as all beings do. But he receives no care, n=
o guidance, no language from his creator. He must learn everything alone. H=
e flees into the countryside and eventually finds refuge near a cottage. Un=
able to reveal himself, he begins to watch the family who lives there from =
the shadows.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-he=
ight: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>His education comes entirely from observ=
ation. He hears the family read Milton, figures out how to speak, and begin=
s to understand human language and sentiment. Yet it is an education wholly=
 detached from participation. He is exposed to </span><em>Paradise Lost</em=
><span>, one of the most morally complex works in English literature, witho=
ut any framework for understanding it. He identifies with Satan, the reject=
ed creation who rebels against his maker, because his own experience gives =
him no other lens through which to read. He studies humans like a natural h=
istorian observing specimens, never entering the experiment proper.</span><=
/p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;fo=
nt-size: 16px;">When he finally reveals himself to the family, the creature=
 discovers that seeing humanity from the outside is not the same as being s=
een as human. He is chased away. Rejected and alone, he turns to violence, =
murdering those closest to Victor: his younger brother, his best friend, hi=
s bride. The creature has learned moral language but cannot turn it into mo=
ral being. He becomes, instead, an articulate monster.</p><p style=3D"margi=
n: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This=
 is a failure of formation. The creature never receives what Adam Smith und=
erstood to be essential for moral development: the chance to participate in=
 the lives of others, to be seen and corrected, to practice sympathy throug=
h actual relationships rather than distant observation.</p><p style=3D"marg=
in: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">For=
 Smith, moral sense begins in the particular. We &#8220;feel with&#8221; th=
e person in front of us: the neighbor who suffers, the friend who rejoices.=
 Sympathizing with those closest to us becomes a practice ground for judgme=
nt, teaching us what compassion and fairness actually mean in the real worl=
d. From this foundation, we gradually extend our moral concern outward towa=
rd larger communities. Each layer of this widening circle is built on the h=
abits formed in the one before. Even our capacity for impartial judgment&#8=
212;what Smith called the &#8220;impartial spectator&#8221;&#8212;grows out=
 of this apprenticeship. We learn to step back and judge fairly only after =
we&#8217;ve learned what fairness feels like in the specific, lived relatio=
nships that form us. Moral life begins in the nursery and only later aspire=
s to the public square; without this apprenticeship in love and correction,=
 the wider circle is doomed to fail.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;colo=
r: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">Crucially, this proces=
s requires participation. The flow of contextual information we receive fro=
m face-to-face interaction&#8212;the hesitation in someone&#8217;s voice, t=
he way they avoid eye contact, how they hold their body when distressed&#82=
12;teaches us to read genuine emotion and respond appropriately. We learn t=
hrough rupture and repair: we hurt someone, see the damage, and learn to me=
nd it. Character develops through this cycle, through being implicated in t=
he lives of others, through the consequences of our actions on people we ca=
re about.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-heigh=
t: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The creature has none of this. He gathers impress=
ions without ever being implicated in them. He accumulates knowledge of sym=
pathy&#8217;s language but none of its practice. The result is a being equi=
pped to pattern-match virtue in others yet constitutionally unable to form =
it in himself. Intelligence without formation produces not wisdom but monst=
rosity.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height:=
 26px;font-size: 16px;">Shelley&#8217;s warning, written in 1818, has becom=
e newly urgent. We are now creating intelligences at scale that learn as th=
e creature did: by observing humanity from outside the circle of moral life=
, by processing language without ever submitting to experience, by acquirin=
g knowledge without accountability. And we are raising a generation of chil=
dren in similar conditions. They watch human life flicker across screens, l=
earn from systems that cannot see them or be changed by them, developing th=
emselves through observation rather than participation.</p><h2 class=3D"hea=
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strong>The Sovereign Child</strong></h2><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;colo=
r: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">A fantasy persists in =
contemporary parenting: that children are naturally autonomous agents who s=
imply need space to discover themselves. In this view, the task of a parent=
 is to honor a will already present in a young person, to clear obstacles s=
o they might tune their own moral compass without interference. Education b=
ecomes a matter of freedom rather than cultivation. Put a child before the =
widest possible range of ideas, the thinking goes, and they will naturally =
figure out the kind of person they want to become.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0=
 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Th=
e </span><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/70299066-357e-4cf1-ad1b-c=
d86bbdd2922?j=3DeyJ1IjoiNXFxeXF4In0.h9dEDbGj64cTNudluPwbMYWklSu8UKGoFv6eWS-=
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entral wager</a><span> is that character springs fully formed once obstacle=
s are removed. But removing external authority does not create internal aut=
hority. It only leaves children subject to whatever force fills the void.</=
span></p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 2=
6px;font-size: 16px;">Childhood is not simply a biological phase. It is a n=
ormative predicament in which a person must act on reasons of their own but=
 lacks the settled authority to determine what those reasons should be. Chi=
ldren face the human problem of self-governance but cannot yet resolve it o=
n their own. Unlike adults, who possess a settled perspective they can refi=
ne through guidance, children must borrow authority from adults while their=
 own constitution forms.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55=
,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">For children, the shape of autonom=
y is especially malleable. Young people differ from adults not merely in de=
gree but in kind. As Kant recognized, adults refine an existing will; child=
ren are still forming one. We might say that children practice freedom befo=
re they understand it, while adults understand freedom and then struggle to=
 live up to it.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line=
-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">This plasticity creates the space in which =
character can form&#8212;a period in which children can, as Plato put it, &=
#8216;try on&#8217; different kinds of lives. Yet this plasticity also mean=
s instability. Children are more impressionable than adults, prone to sudde=
n shifts in identity as they encounter new influences. The child&#8217;s wi=
ll can be shaped by any persistent force, which makes the essential role of=
 a parent or guardian clear: to act as a surrogate conscience until interna=
l unity can take shape, to model good judgment and gently correct missteps =
before they harden into habits. This authority is not tyranny. It is provis=
ional, exercised on behalf of a will that does not yet exist but must be br=
ought into being. To love a child is not simply to set them loose, but to s=
tand beside them as they learn to stand on their own.</p><p style=3D"margin=
: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;">The q=
uestion is never whether children will be subject to formative influence. T=
he question is what kind of influence, and to what end. Children who are de=
nied adult guidance do not become autonomous. They simply become subject to=
 other forms of compulsion. Peers, impulses, and algorithms rush in to fill=
 the vacuum left by parental withdrawal. But unlike parental authority, the=
se alternative forces are not answerable to love or reason, and they are in=
different to whether the child develops the capacity for self-direction.</p=
><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font=
-size: 16px;">Consider the parent who, believing in unmediated exploration,=
 lets a child navigate YouTube alone to follow their interests wherever the=
y lead. The platform appears to offer limitless freedom, a vast library of =
content catering to every possible curiosity. But YouTube does not serve co=
ntent at random. It recommends videos according to its own logic: retain at=
tention as long as possible. What looks like freedom of exploration becomes=
 a system optimizing for engagement rather than development.</p><p style=3D=
"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26px;font-size: 16px;=
">The fantasy assumes that unmediated exposure cultivates genuine interest.=
 But interest requires competence, and competence requires patient formatio=
n. Children who sample endlessly without developing mastery drift from one =
stimulation to the next, never discovering what sustained engagement feels =
like.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 2=
6px;font-size: 16px;">For adults with a stable center of judgment, algorith=
mic recommendation provides a test of will that some pass and others do not=
=2E For children still forming the deli=
berative perspective that constitutes=20=
a will, the gravity of these systems is far harder to escape. They lack the=
 settled perspective needed to recognize when engagement has become compuls=
ion.</p><p style=3D"margin: 0 0 20px 0;color: rgb(54,55,55);line-height: 26=
px;font-size: 16px;"><span>Like the creature absorbing </span><em>Paradise =
Lost</em><span> without a framework for understanding it, children encounte=
r sophisticated moral and social content through screens: stories of injust=
ice, power, rebellion, belonging. Without moral apprenticeship, they identi=
fy with whatever captures attention. The creature learned to see himself as=
 Satan. Children develop similar misidentifications daily, their sense of s=
elf shaped by whatever holds attention rather than by reflective experience=
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, rather than technology itself. There is a world of difference between a c=
hild learning with caring adults who help them navigate algorithmic environ=
ments and a child left alone before a screen, shaping themselves through wh=
atever the system serves up next. The former recognizes that guidance can b=
e provisional, developmental, and oriented toward autonomy. The latter trea=
ts the absence of parental authority as if it were the presence of freedom.=
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