Being Kept in the Cave “You can’t build a house without nails and wood. If you don’t want a house built, hide the nails and wood. If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none… Let him forget there is such a thing as war” (Bradbury pg. 58). In this dystopian society, the media avoids giving valuable and worrying information to the public in order to keep peace and order. This lying and holding back of education is why technology should be limited in education today. This is not as far fetched an idea as one might think. Technology today has been proven time and time again to be untrustworthy. Technology should be limited in the field of education because
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In Allegory of the cave, the puppeteers cast shadows on the walls of the caves of inanimate objects, causing their prisoners to believe that those shadows were everything that was real in the world. Being just like those puppeteers in The Allegory of the Cave, the internet “was noticing that, actually, [he] was clicking more on [his] liberal friends’ links than on [his] conservative friends’ links. And without consulting [him] about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared” (Pariser), continuously controlling everything that the user saw. Sadly, these “filters” don’t only exist in social media. Also like puppeteers in “The search filters on social media, “‘gatekeepers’ [are] central to whether something goes viral or not. These gatekeepers… are often old-fashioned journalists or people ‘in the know’”(Vis), also controlling what the public knows about what is happening around the world. The puppeteers or “gatekeepers” withhold information and keep the general public from knowing what is really going on in the world. Nowadays, technology is keeping students and adults alike in the cave because of their naivety to believing everything they see. Just like Mildred in Fahrenheit 451, who believed everything the people in the walls said to her, humans can be naive to what is real and what
In Allegory of the cave, the puppeteers cast shadows on the walls of the caves of inanimate objects, causing their prisoners to believe that those shadows were everything that was real in the world. Being just like those puppeteers in The Allegory of the Cave, the internet “was noticing that, actually, [he] was clicking more on [his] liberal friends’ links than on [his] conservative friends’ links. And without consulting [him] about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared” (Pariser), continuously controlling everything that the user saw. Sadly, these “filters” don’t only exist in social media. Also like puppeteers in “The search filters on social media, “‘gatekeepers’ [are] central to whether something goes viral or not. These gatekeepers… are often old-fashioned journalists or people ‘in the know’”(Vis), also controlling what the public knows about what is happening around the world. The puppeteers or “gatekeepers” withhold information and keep the general public from knowing what is really going on in the world. Nowadays, technology is keeping students and adults alike in the cave because of their naivety to believing everything they see. Just like Mildred in Fahrenheit 451, who believed everything the people in the walls said to her, humans can be naive to what is real and what