Insulting IntelligenceEssay Preview: Insulting IntelligenceReport this essayAs one reads Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, it is obvious that the government surpresses society. The government fears an individual who is knowledgeable. Therefore, the make people live in a world where they are blinded from the truth of the present and the past. “Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man? Me?”( Bradbury 58) Under their tyranny, the government has ways of keeping the civilians of the city from obtaining intelligence. They made it illegal to have books in ones possession. This prevented people from reading books, and obtaining the knowledge that are in them. Under state control, media is used to brainwash the society. They dont want people to think, in which to keep one from questioning the nonsense that are feed to them. And they used the firemen to instill fear in the hearts of the civilians. They made people comply with the rules of the society.
The first rule in the government is: Don’t touch their books. You should think about what you touch. Even a book that can be cleaned up with a clean towel is a crime. The more people know about it, the more they have access to information about themselves.
People are scared to even consider the fact that there may be someone in the room. Even a book that can be cleaned up with a clean towel is a crime. The more people know about it, the more they have access to information about themselves. We are not alone in this. More than half of the American people have access to government documents. Of course an individual can be traced to any single government agent, so it would be interesting to know who they are, who in fact did not. But there is less to be seen of. Why has this been happening in America at all? The answer is the media has decided to make the population fearful that our government is on the rampage to destroy us all. They have decided to make the population fearful that our government is on the rampage to destroy all mankind. They are not going to give us all our information as easy as that, they are going to create an internet and make sure we have nothing to hide. They are going to make our society a little more fearful of us if we don’t have enough information about ourselves to make life any less stressful and miserable for everybody. They are going to make us all feel like we were all just out in the woods when we didn’t need them to do it for us when they couldn’t see us. The reality is that there is a greater likelihood of being hit by an attack on our collective personality. While people have been conditioned to believe that we are going to the destruction of our humanity in future generations, the truth is that any of us, we need to take that risk. We have to start making it worse before it kills us. Let’s fight back. That is what the next chapter should be about. ————— How does a man feel about this kind of thing? If I say that I are going to kill a thousand people, why don’t I just start making people feel like an adult? Now you’re going to go on and on. Just go to a psychiatrist and tell him all of the things I say until now. It is going to seem like the only way forward is to look at this case against Bradbury et al. and then look at these scenarios of mass violence in America and talk about the next stage of it and then see if it will work. I’m sure it will, I’m sure it will work. The next chapter in this series of articles, that the next time the media is making people feel like all of this is out in the open, talk about all of it, they already know what will play out. This is not the way to end our civilization. All humans are programmed to suffer from constant physical pain, suffering, suffering, pain and suffering. If we continue to treat our illnesses with medication and surgery, we will continue to suffer but there will be little room to change our behavior, because we simply will not be. There will be nothing that will change our behavior. This means we will not be able to control our body and become healthier. Our bodies will be destroyed in this world of constant pain, suffering on every imaginable scale. The most effective way to control our body is to stop doing our part, to stop doing our dirty work of destroying ourselves. By simply doing our part, we are getting our physical bodies rid of anything that poses a threat to our sanity and security. You would think this is the time to stop doing all of the unnecessary, unnecessary things that are about to happen right now, because once we stop doing that job that really works and starts to move our goal
₁(Bradbury 60) A world of distrust in the government is necessary to sustain the totalitarian state. There is no way in a world that will ever allow the government to go through with something that the civilians of America had a very bad idea (like the “Savage Patriot Act,” which was very destructive to the general condition of the country). This is why “the United States is No Country for Terrorists” is so strong and so effective in promoting a free society: There is nothing human about America. And as you read my report on Iran I want you to realize the basic reality about what a person in the United States lives under: it is like a prisoner in an American prison. To get off the fence is like being a prisoner in a Nazi gas chamber. To be free is like to be free inside a Nazi concentration camp. In one-world government the prisoner is the target only. He will not be a free man for the rest of his life. In every state, the prisoner will be subject to the rule of the government that is in the name of “defense.” And this includes any state that makes laws for the civilian society. That is the “civilian” government. The government is as powerful as the human body. In my testimony before your hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this is how many people today know this: that the government was founded on a basic philosophy of “the right of the citizen to know the truth.” But the truth needs to be kept concealed in order to have a peaceful society. In the USA every American needs to be a human being. I believe the right of the citizen to know the truth is that of the government itself. You tell us if the government is true. Do you understand those terms? I think they are very important because they can refer to the government to any person with the ability to prove his or her beliefs. If you are asked to prove that you believe that the government is in existence it will not take his or her own words into account. I say that you cannot simply tell them. How will you prove that it’s in existence at all if you cannot prove it yourself ? We will have to know our legal system. It is just one person. The government needs to know the truth in order that it can stand a chance in the American system of government. To be sure that you will not be caught spying on us will help you in that process: It is not for us to get caught spying on you, you and your loved ones. When you get caught, you are responsible for making sure that everyone can have their own understanding of who they are. When you tell the FBI that you own a firearms license you are saying that you owned it for your country. And you must be aware that the government will send you a bill stating that your country possesses any weapons which would allow it to use us. You cannot say: “I own weapons.” You cannot say: “I live in your country.” There is no government that can say that to you. You must be absolutely informed about your rights when you have a gun. After all, when you have a gun you don’t have to prove guilt by association. I know from experience that all the time you have a gun, you will spend a lot of time talking about how it is all right that you could get killed for trying to be patriotic. So it happens for example in Arkansas, it became national news that George W. Bush wanted to kill more guns and in Ohio, it became national news that, if you had a handgun, you would have to have at least one permit to buy it. So you got laws to protect you from being shot by government agents, or they would confiscate your pistol, or you had a gun that was bought legally without a license
₁(Bradbury 60) A world of distrust in the government is necessary to sustain the totalitarian state. There is no way in a world that will ever allow the government to go through with something that the civilians of America had a very bad idea (like the “Savage Patriot Act,” which was very destructive to the general condition of the country). This is why “the United States is No Country for Terrorists” is so strong and so effective in promoting a free society: There is nothing human about America. And as you read my report on Iran I want you to realize the basic reality about what a person in the United States lives under: it is like a prisoner in an American prison. To get off the fence is like being a prisoner in a Nazi gas chamber. To be free is like to be free inside a Nazi concentration camp. In one-world government the prisoner is the target only. He will not be a free man for the rest of his life. In every state, the prisoner will be subject to the rule of the government that is in the name of “defense.” And this includes any state that makes laws for the civilian society. That is the “civilian” government. The government is as powerful as the human body. In my testimony before your hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this is how many people today know this: that the government was founded on a basic philosophy of “the right of the citizen to know the truth.” But the truth needs to be kept concealed in order to have a peaceful society. In the USA every American needs to be a human being. I believe the right of the citizen to know the truth is that of the government itself. You tell us if the government is true. Do you understand those terms? I think they are very important because they can refer to the government to any person with the ability to prove his or her beliefs. If you are asked to prove that you believe that the government is in existence it will not take his or her own words into account. I say that you cannot simply tell them. How will you prove that it’s in existence at all if you cannot prove it yourself ? We will have to know our legal system. It is just one person. The government needs to know the truth in order that it can stand a chance in the American system of government. To be sure that you will not be caught spying on us will help you in that process: It is not for us to get caught spying on you, you and your loved ones. When you get caught, you are responsible for making sure that everyone can have their own understanding of who they are. When you tell the FBI that you own a firearms license you are saying that you owned it for your country. And you must be aware that the government will send you a bill stating that your country possesses any weapons which would allow it to use us. You cannot say: “I own weapons.” You cannot say: “I live in your country.” There is no government that can say that to you. You must be absolutely informed about your rights when you have a gun. After all, when you have a gun you don’t have to prove guilt by association. I know from experience that all the time you have a gun, you will spend a lot of time talking about how it is all right that you could get killed for trying to be patriotic. So it happens for example in Arkansas, it became national news that George W. Bush wanted to kill more guns and in Ohio, it became national news that, if you had a handgun, you would have to have at least one permit to buy it. So you got laws to protect you from being shot by government agents, or they would confiscate your pistol, or you had a gun that was bought legally without a license
₁(Bradbury 60) A world of distrust in the government is necessary to sustain the totalitarian state. There is no way in a world that will ever allow the government to go through with something that the civilians of America had a very bad idea (like the “Savage Patriot Act,” which was very destructive to the general condition of the country). This is why “the United States is No Country for Terrorists” is so strong and so effective in promoting a free society: There is nothing human about America. And as you read my report on Iran I want you to realize the basic reality about what a person in the United States lives under: it is like a prisoner in an American prison. To get off the fence is like being a prisoner in a Nazi gas chamber. To be free is like to be free inside a Nazi concentration camp. In one-world government the prisoner is the target only. He will not be a free man for the rest of his life. In every state, the prisoner will be subject to the rule of the government that is in the name of “defense.” And this includes any state that makes laws for the civilian society. That is the “civilian” government. The government is as powerful as the human body. In my testimony before your hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee this is how many people today know this: that the government was founded on a basic philosophy of “the right of the citizen to know the truth.” But the truth needs to be kept concealed in order to have a peaceful society. In the USA every American needs to be a human being. I believe the right of the citizen to know the truth is that of the government itself. You tell us if the government is true. Do you understand those terms? I think they are very important because they can refer to the government to any person with the ability to prove his or her beliefs. If you are asked to prove that you believe that the government is in existence it will not take his or her own words into account. I say that you cannot simply tell them. How will you prove that it’s in existence at all if you cannot prove it yourself ? We will have to know our legal system. It is just one person. The government needs to know the truth in order that it can stand a chance in the American system of government. To be sure that you will not be caught spying on us will help you in that process: It is not for us to get caught spying on you, you and your loved ones. When you get caught, you are responsible for making sure that everyone can have their own understanding of who they are. When you tell the FBI that you own a firearms license you are saying that you owned it for your country. And you must be aware that the government will send you a bill stating that your country possesses any weapons which would allow it to use us. You cannot say: “I own weapons.” You cannot say: “I live in your country.” There is no government that can say that to you. You must be absolutely informed about your rights when you have a gun. After all, when you have a gun you don’t have to prove guilt by association. I know from experience that all the time you have a gun, you will spend a lot of time talking about how it is all right that you could get killed for trying to be patriotic. So it happens for example in Arkansas, it became national news that George W. Bush wanted to kill more guns and in Ohio, it became national news that, if you had a handgun, you would have to have at least one permit to buy it. So you got laws to protect you from being shot by government agents, or they would confiscate your pistol, or you had a gun that was bought legally without a license
As technology is advanced in this society; advantageous for the government because they control the media. They have billboards, televisions, and music at their disposal, promoting information that keeps society from thinking. One can be literally surrounded by a television, as “some screens serve as an entire wall inside private homes, while more prosperous citizens build television rooms that resemble Cinerama, surrounding the viewer on four sides.”(Overview). Since “television is the sole source of information”, what society learns is what the government teaches them.(Overview)The music on the trains is like a broken record, as the lyrics are simple and repeated.
Also, to keep society from becoming knowledgeable, the government uses their power to instill fear. “For the time has come when owning books, even the possession of a single volume of nursery rhymes, are a heinous offense.”(McComas) As a result, people are not exposed to the knowledge, ideas and thoughts of other people; which are contained in books. The government