Pentem's Panopticon Prison

elf on the shelf is a panopticon, it conditions children for the surveillance state. It's Pentem's panopticon and if you look at how security cameras are used in modern society today,. instead of funding being placed into a community to address the reasons, the poverty, the trauma, that criminal behaviour results from you save money by putting cameras everywhere. The time and place where elf in the shelf started emerging in culture was around the recession. When I was growing up we didn't have elves in the shelves, we had something similar what we had: the Robin Redbreast. We were told coming up to Christmas, if a Robin RedBreast sees him misbehaving