Freedoms

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows" (pg 81). When parents give their children too many freedoms, they lose control of their children. Parents always do their best to provide their children with a good home, comestibles and a generally good standard of living. Too often these days, parents try to bring too much zest and become friends with their kids instead of parents. Of course I think parents and children should get along, but the parents should still assume an athoritative role. Without that, the children will never listen, and will disparage the parents. The parents should not be aloof, but have a nice middle ground, and know when to be understanding and when to use their athority. If the athority is not used, then the parents lose it. This is similar to 1984 in that the party has to continually drill into everyone's head that Big Brother has the athority and that he holds all the freedom. That freedom is slavery, and slavery is freedom. To us, that doesn't make sense, but to the ignorant, it would.