Ignorance Is Not Bliss Analysis

Ignorance Is Not Bliss Knowledge is the characteristic people obtained through millennia of trial and error that has allowed humans to become the dominant species and control the Earth. People’s natural curiosity initiated science and technological movements in the early years of humankind's history that have given us new understandings and perspectives of the world. However, before humans had time to move their focus from basic survival to more intellectual endeavors, they were ignorant of what is now common knowledge. Without ignorance first, there is no knowledge. In the works Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick, Dr. Strangelove (1964), “Until the End of the World,” by Adrienne Redd, “The Wrath of Khan,” by William Langewiesche, “99 LuftBallons,” by Nena, “Political Science,” by Randy Newman, “No Nuclear War,” by Peter Tosh, “Agony of Hiroshima,” by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Wikipedia article “nuclear holocaust”, a common motif is mass destruction is the result of ignorance.
Eugene Burdick’s political thriller, Fail-Safe (1962), displays that the military and political system are not as flawless as they seem. Burdick develops this throughout the plot as the President has to continue to make increasingly more difficult decisions that break protocol to accommodate the mistake of …show more content…
Khan starts off against military control but as he continues to study uranium, he begins to supply the military with his atomic weapons and consequently is forced to support military control. Langewiesche wrote this biography of Khan to give his readers a real story of a nuclear weapon creator in order to show that simply because Khan created weapons, doesn’t mean he was a terrible person. The author wrote this for people who can manage lengthy articles and are curious about the life of someone who gives birth to a device that gives