Intelligence And Oppression

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In my opinion, intelligence and education is far more effective in fighting manipulation and oppression then having a voice is. Not only can you easily convince an ignorant person/audience to do, believe, or think anything you like, you can also use people in your favor. In addition, itd be less likely for you to be tricked.For example, in the book Animal Farm the animals are not nearly as smart as the pigs are and are manipulated into doing anything the pigs desired. The animal’s ignorance and tendency of yielding to the pigs caused the pigs to have power over all. Now, because the pigs were more educated they were not manipulated a single time. If the animals ,however, were smarter and educated more, then they would not have been so easily

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