Censorship is the idea of not revealing ideas and text in order to benefit society. But in many ways, censoring items causes the world to create biased thoughts based on the limited information released. In some cases the world is blinded because they are told nothing to begin with. Historical events such as the holocaust can prove this true. To this day society continues to be censored from ideas by the government and companies that impact our ways of life and learning.
The result is a society where fanatical, destructive behavior, such as the firemen's book-burning, flourishes. People in Montag’s society have been conditioned to think the suggestion of reading is a laughable subject as expressed in the quote, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?’ He laughed. ‘That's against the law!’ ‘Oh. Of course.’” (8). The people in Montag’s society are banned by their government to read anything that has any philosophies or intellectual thought.
The phrase ‘death chariots’ with their association of death, violence and destruction has the intended affect to fear readers of these manic, destructive young teens. It is this appeal to fear which evokes activity in the community to promote a change in society. Wowser also refers to the waste of ‘our tax dollar on a futile and ineffective effort to lower road toll by advertising’ reiterating that the law in place is not desired. This evokes hostility and a want for change in readers. Wowser adds an appeal to community service in saying it is rare ‘to find a young person who is a member of the Salvation Army’.
“A Modest Proposal” For Preventing Smokers from Contaminating the Air with Deadly Toxins and Causing Second Hand Smoke upon the Innocent Public Contaminated air is among the many fears that the innocent public must confront in order to attempt a healthy and long living life. Naive children occasionally saunter down the street unknowingly passing by men and women smoking the typical cigarette. Tobacco does not only affect the consumer, but it also partakes in the lives of the surrounding inhabitants that inhale the same toxins. Smokers have a gruesome and egotistic view on life that results in no consideration for the purity of a person’s body. The negligence that tobacco consumers demonstrate by smoking wherever and whenever results in 443,000 deaths per year, including 49,000 of whom had never smoked, but second hand smoke took advantage over them.
Society should not take a moralistic tone or approach concerning people addicted to drugs. An addicted brain no longer functions like a normal brain but is in a state of compulsive drug seeking and use. How then does it help the individual addicted if they are merely written off as someone who couldn’t control themselves rather than someone with a health problem who needs treatment? It doesn’t. And how will it benefit society if addicts are labeled as morally inferior people and are not given the help they need to perhaps become productive members of their communities?
Due to a lack of stories, the media made ‘mods’ and ‘rockers’ into folk devils, folk devils are groups of people who are associated with moral panics. The media made people categorise themselves into one of the two groups, this helped in creating the violence between the two groups, consequently meaning that both the ‘mods’ and ‘rockers’ were labelled as ‘troublemakers’ by the public. Item A expresses that moral panics can lead to a range or responses by the public, by agents of social control and by the criminals or deviants themselves. The result in the intervention of the mass media created a negative association against the two groups and an unneeded moral panic for the public on crime that, before the mass media created a moral panic, were nothing to worry about. Although the theory does well at explaining the effects of the mass media, it doesn’t explain why and how they create moral panics; despite this, the theory understands the consequences of moral panics.
Lastly technology can negatively alter the future. Kennedy suggests the people only invent these machines to create less work for themselves and Bradbury's beliefs agree with him as well. In Ray Bradbury's the Pedestrian technology impacts society in a negative way. To begin,technology in this futuristic society turns everyone antisocial. As Leonard Mead enter[s] out into
The population’s state of fear is an example of a negative mood which then leads to the population believing that there’s a defect in their environment. What follows is constant scrutiny of their environment and the people in it. And it’s this constant scrutiny that the government wants. The government wants the population to feel that there is something wrong with their lives and that there is something missing. They want this because the realization that something is wrong or missing leads the population to try and find the solution or the missing piece.
People will think it is temporary but ignoring it will have already hurt the environment. Additionally, not only do people not notice such doublespeak, but even in the event that they identify doublespeak, they may not be against it because they do not understand its bad effects. Furthermore, he uses active words to express how doublespeak will hide reality from people. For instance, in the last two paragraphs, he states that doublespeak will produce “suspicions, cynicism, distrust and hostility”. He tries to get people’s attention to think about how doublespeak will disturb their lives.
Soma is a way to keep a stable social atmosphere because by causing these hallucinations, people are distracted and drawn away from seeing the truth of what world reality they are living in which is miserable and controlled which would make any person miserable. The high the soma creates is like any other drug in society today and is not real but people get addicted to it because it is an escape so this happiness people think they are experiencing is fake and meaningless. Soma makes it seem like reality can’t bring happiness because it only brings hate, anger and sadness. People find themselves getting involved in an illusion because they believe it is better than what real life can offer which is really sad so even when they think they are happy they are still defeated by being sad because they are turning to drugs to make them happy which give them fake