The world the children create is the one they inhabit in the nursery. It's remarkable, their father, Mr. Hadley remarks, just how much the viewcreens there can pick up "telepathic emanations" from the children's minds and create scenes that are pleasing to them. What pleases the children, Peter and Wendy, most in their manufactured Never land, is the blazing hot African veldt, where the viewscreens constantly enact the children's desires by showing them lions that kill and devour the Hadley parents. The parents, as the story points out, are "Scrooge" in the children's minds, trying to set limits and say no. The nursery, on the other hand, is "Santa," giving the children everything they want. The world the children create is one of violence and death, a ruthless environment where they triumph over their parents' humanity, but the children don't create it alone: technology, allowed too much power, leads the way.
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