Sunday, October 24, 2010

Freedom

Is John destined to be a future dictator of the Communist or National Socialist type? Today he found a baby snail and made it a home in a glass jar with soil and leaves. The snail kept trying to climb out of the jar and we gently told John more than once that the snail probably wanted to go home to his mommy and would die in the jar.

He explained patiently: "The snail's freedom is in the jar."

It reminded me of Newspeak from "1984" . . .

3 comments:

  1. haha! does he know what "freedom" means or does he think it's a thing, like water or leaves?

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  2. Sarah Faith: It's true, I don't think he really knows what "freedom" is, and thinks it is a thing.

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