Don't forget the post which JMG made a few months ago about conspiracy theories and what they reveal about subconscious fears as well.

If you worry that your children/this generation of children are going to be enormous giants who will devour and enslave you, then what might that instead signify about how you feel about children, and how you have been treating them?

And wait, wasn't there a Greek myth or two about this same topic as well...?

Mr. Crow