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period 5

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By: Ray Bradbury

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Are we being controlled and conditioned to not be curious?

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Once a person gets too curious and starts asking questions about topics not usually discussed the society makes them and everyone else believe that their curiosity could be potentially dangerous.

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" 'Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?' " (Bradbury 70)

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" 'We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought' " (Bradbury 59)

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“Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.” (Bradbury 31)

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In simple words yes, we are being controlled and conditioned to not be curious. The government hides many things from society such as having ways into every persons personal devices, and once people start asking questions there is either not response or denial. Also as children and teenagers people are taught many forms of curiosity are wrong like questioning elders or people of higher power even if they are simply speaking nonsense or they are saying things that don’t seem to be logical. People are taught from a very young age to keep thoughts to yourself or some kind of discipline is set in place therefore many forms of curiosity are limited because of what society and people in this society believe is right. Also in this society many things that could cause controversy from simple opinions are taught to be wrong and should be kept to oneself forcing people to just try to be happy much like the novel Fahrenheit 451