Ever since the planes had crashed into the Twin Towers in New York on September 1, 2001, Americans had fallen into the state of fear. Since then, Americans were willing to give up their privacy for protection, and even to this day The President of the United States has signed a temporary travel ban that keeps people from other countries entering the U.S. to keep people safe. These actions of protecting the people represents what extent people will go to, to be safe rather than free. American essayist and social critic, H.L. Mencken had wrote “The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” He encompasses this, that the average human in a society prefers safety over freedom to make a society strive. People’s brains
