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To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

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Gold has been the dream of humans since the day we start to work with it. The Bible speaks about King Midas which God gave him the power to turn everything he touched into gold, obviously this initial blessing it became a curse because to transform all in gold, he was starved, gold does not eat. Despite this warning Biblical trying to explain the difference between value and price , gold has historically been an obsession. We has drilled, searched and kill for it, whole mountains have been torn down and auger abyss which we can be seen from space. During the Middle Ages there was a group of intrepid wises who wanted to imitate the legendary king and they searched the Philosopher's Stone which turns lead into gold, we now know that this is possible thanks to the Atomic physics* but to mixt tears of Owl and mustache toad they were far from their objective. Today we are continuing hoarding gold, which buys goods and souls for nothing. I do not want to talk about it. Similarly t...

Fahrenheit 451: the temperature which knowledge begin to burn

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In a no far future when houses will be fireproof; firefighters will not extinguish fire but their new job will be to burn books. This is the approach of Ray Bradbury in his novel Fahrenheit 451 where he described a world without lecture and books forbidden . 451 degree Fahrenheit (233 Celsius degree) is the threshold to ignition of organic matter in consequence paper that are make the books. The novel isn’t a defense of editorial industry but they talk about ignorance of society. Societies where all needs are covering people lose their curiosity and they will become believer to the government speech. The easy life helps to accept the status of thing without critics, and the fear of losing the comfortable life blokes mind of ideas that can put in danger this status. In short it has a life of vegetable.     Ray shows people lobotomized by TV unique channel of knowledge and the way to manipulate population. This novel was write in 1953 in the USA of American dream wa...