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Want to make everyone see things the same way? Burn the books. Don't allow any dissenting ideas to creep in. Keep people anesthetized with pleasure, inanity, TV. And, since houses are now fire-proof, designate the firemen to do the book burning. Catch anyone with a book--destroy them and call it serving the greater good.
That knowledge could be ripped from us and a single-minded, totally controlled society put into its place, is among the more frightening possibilities for mankind. It might seem ...more
That knowledge could be ripped from us and a single-minded, totally controlled society put into its place, is among the more frightening possibilities for mankind. It might seem ...more
As timely now as it was then. Perhaps more so.
Aug 28, 2013
Soledad
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it was amazing
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