What is Crippling Us?

The points that were made within both texts were the facts that lead to an interpretation that states the government and policies they provide us with are all leading the population towards conforming and uniformity.
With the Gatto piece he's predicting the future and the effects our actions will most likely have on society if this keeps going, "The integrating function. This might well be called "the conformity function," because its intention is to make children as alike as possible. People who conform are predictable, and this is of great use to those who wish to harness and manipulate a large labor force." Basically within society we are already seeing it, everyone is trying to make themselves like the perceive image of perfection. We get these perceptions from media and our social interactions, which for the children is school the place that we spend a majority of our childhood at. The schools then rate us on our potential when we first enter the program. They do not see us as individuals but rather workers, and they do not look towards the future but rather towards this instant so no scholar is ever able to be great or see what they could become if they at first are not the greatest, "The selective function. This refers not to human choice at all but to Darwin's theory of natural selection as applied to what he called "the favored races." In short, the idea is to help things along by consciously attempting to improve the breeding stock. Schools are meant to tag the unfit - with poor grades, remedial placement, and other punishments - clearly enough that their peers will accept them as inferior and effectively bar them from the reproductive sweepstakes. That's what all those little humiliations from first grade onward were intended to do: wash the dirt down the drain."
Within Fahrenheit 451, Raybury makes the same points that all lead to conforming as a society and uniformity. The only difference is within the story the society has already reached the point of no return that we seem to dread. But what is so remarkable about this story is the fact that it was not published recently but rather in 1953! Raybury had to foretell the circumstances that our society would be experiencing today and then infer even farther into the future. His story is the basis of what we worry about today. "Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. The gasoline refugee. Towns turn into motels, people in nomadic surges from place to place, following the moon tides, living tonight in the room where you slept this noon and I the night before" (57), this is all things we see today! We all move so fast not paying attention, real close attention to what is smack dab in front of our noses. We have become so dependent on technology as well that we don't think anymore we have become so dependent on a machine to so basically all the tough thinking our brain needs to remain healthy and on the ball. Its sad but the lack of thinking and individuality is exactly what the government and school systems need to create labors or even mindless robots, "More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and superorganize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less" (57)
I was persuaded by both pieces of work, they held back no punches and were not afraid to say what others can't. We need to change or what tis foreseen in Fahrenheit 451 will happen to use as well and I'm not so sire we will be able to recover.