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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently.
Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals;
censorship blocks transmission.
Assassination is the extreme
form of censorship.
Use of abusive language as well as abusive actions can make lasting impacts on children and can result in increased aggressive tendencies.
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with
illusion.
The only valid form of censorship is the right of people
not to listen.
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny but that has come through is safe and clean.
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Explicit sex, violence, pain, suffering, and unusual human acts are characteristics of the human drama. Perhaps it is the actual acts that the censors wish to curb, especially in youth, and by censoring the symbols for sex - language - they hope to censor the reality of sex. The logic is that without knowledge, there will be no corresponding action. But this logic is backwards, for it is the action that comes first, which is then symbolized through language.
References “Censorship Quotes.” Brainy Quote. 2011. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. “Censorship Quotes, Freedom of Speech Sayings.” The Quote Garden. Lombardi, Victor. “Music and Censorship.” Music and Censorship. Dec. 1991.