good article. I would add a point which seems to me more important yet. I
will use an example.
-Take a child and place it in a room in which there are no adults to survey
him - that child is free in the true sense of the word: he can and will do
everything that pleases him joyfully and spontaneously. The child in a free
environment will have therefore the FREEDOM TO CHOOSE how to behave and what
to do.
-The same child in the same environment in the presence of a controller (an
adult with authority) will lose both the joy and the spontaneity and what is
more important (in a negative sense), the child will have no independent
freedom, that is to say, the child CANNOT CHOOSE how to behave and what to
do.
It is this ability to choose how to behave and what to do that makes us
really human. When a human being is surveiled he is no longer human for he
ceases to express himself freely and becomes a fearful and constructed shadow
of a man, a scared and artificial child that is no more human then a poor
pavlov's dog.
