Burning Books

The act of book burning is not a new idea, in fact it has been preformed over 2000 years ago. From the time that books made appearances around the world, there would always be someone to burn them. Most of the time books were burned out of fear. Some feared that certain books would make others smarter than themselves. Others burned books that held certain truths in them that they did not wish for others to be aware of. And many held new ideas that were controversial to the time. Leaders feared that their followers would see logic in these ideas and would cause rebellion or conflicting thoughts than that of their leader, and thus diminishing his design of perfect rule. As in words of Winston Churchill "You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. …