choices unless you properly under stand all the opportunities open to you. For example, if you want to buy a pair of shoes and know of only a part of the stock available to you, you can make a choice. But your freedom of choice is limited. The less you know, the fewer choices open to you. When we do not know what to do with an evening and just turn on the television to see "what is on," we are making a choice and exercising our freedom. But what a restricted world we have allowed to develop about us. Whatever happened to reading, hobbies, con versation, or just plain thinking. Here are options that have been neglected so often that they are overlooked. Television has become our sole expression of freedom — or slavery. Knowledge can expand the choices available to us and, thus, the dimensions of our free dom.
America is still called the land of the free. In comparison with most other countries of the world, this is undoubtedly true—and for this we should be profoundly thankful. But few Americans are well enough informed to make wise judgments in voting or in par ticipating in the life of our country. We are content to let the televi sion or radio news editor digest the news and feed us what he feels we should hear. Serious books and ar ticles are seldom read. Effective discussion with political leaders is seldom possible and the effort to write a letter to a congressman and request information is thought not worth the effort. Hence, we cannot fully appreciate and act upon the political, social, and religious free doms available to us. Our basic freedoms are being eroded and may soon be lost through lack of use and support. Too quietly, we are becoming a
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