Plato+&+Childhood's+End

Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorized ones only. Let them fashion the mind with such tales, even more fondly than they mould the body with their hands; but most of those which are now in use must be discarded. -__The Republic__ The end of strife and conflict of all kinds had also meant the virtual end of creative art. There were myriads of performers, amateur and professional, yet there had been no really outstanding works of literature, music, painting or sculpture for a generation. -__Childhood’s End__.  In both __The Republic__ and __Childhood’s End__, the respective smiths of Utopia realize that if humanity learns of conflict through literature or art, then conflict will endure. Plato counters this by instituting a new generation in the youth. He feels that if the children of the next generation experience no thoughts of evil or conflict, then they will not demonstrate this behavior in their later lives. In __Childhood’s End__; however, the censorship of history, literature, religion, and arts are mainly to squelch the curiosity and activity of humans and slowly turn the human race into a bunch of boring, uninterested couch potatoes.