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Forbidden Reading

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This paper will address one of the most dominant impulses of the human species and of almost all the other species on Earth who are able to have more than basic thought processes. It will begin by addressing what it believes as one of the most dominant impulses, why it is, how it came to be, and why it overshadows so much of any given society...
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Unfortunately, it is one of the prevailing compulsions lying in one’s body at any given time. Curiosity is something that resides in everyone regardless of one’s beliefs or upbringing. For example, in Forbidden Reading, p.286, it describes Comstock, one who despised all books that “destroy[ed]…the country,” was still taken over by curiosity despite the disgust and made him “dip… into the books before destroying them…” Curiosity’s unquenchability grows until it is impossible to suppress regardless of the dangers it brings one’s physical being into, for example, one often is often “forced to find devious methods of learning” (p...
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