When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. I think the Elf on

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. I think the Elf on the Shelf gives exactly the right message about the place of surveillance in our society.