How, according to Shaw, does the government force us to be their slave calling it freedom? /OR/ “The object of all honest governments should b to prevent your being imposed on this way. But the object of most actual governments I regret to say, is exactly the opposite.”—Explain the lines.

Answer: These lines occur in the essay “Freedom” written by George Bernard Shaw. He sees that every man is being cheated or exploited by some men or exploiters and he thinks that it is every government’s duty to prevent its countrymen from the exploiters. But it is seen that most of the governments do the opposite. They are seen to help the exploiters. The essayist says that few men always try to cheat other by force, trick or fraud even by saying that everyone should sacrifice their freedom to the exploiters because it is their religious duty. Thus, the dishonest men fulfill their own interest. In every society there exists a government whose duty is to abolish this man to man exploitation. But Shaw sees that the government is far from their duty. Besides the government, with excellent verbal jugglery, will call this slavery “freedom” and force us to be slave of others. Even the government calls the “pain” of us “pleasure” and thus transforms “pain” into “pleasure”. If anyone protests this slavery, he or she is told by the government to quit job of slavery and search for new job wherever he want. But he cannot get a new job anywhere. So unwillingly he or she must work in their job. On the other hand, if anyone raises their voice against this careless, cruel government, he or she is told that in every five years, election gives him freedom to choose or elect his government among so many contestants. So, whatever that elected government decides, he or she must obey. Thus, always the common men are getting fooled by the government.