It is about time somebody exploded1 that hoary2 old myth about childhood being the happiest period of your life.Childhood may certainly be fairly happy, but its greatest moments can't compare with the sheer joy being an adult. Who ever asked a six-year-old for an opinion? Children don' t have opinions, or if they do, nobody notices. Adults choose the clothes their children will wear, the books they will read and the friends they will play with. Mother and father are kindly but absolute dictators3. This have to be manipulated4 so as not to interfere too seriously with the lives of their elders and betters5. The essential difference between manhood and childhood is the same as the difference between independence and subjection6.
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