There is one apparent scenario of conciliation in the allegory, in which teachers, and by extension, parents, are urged to talk to children about 'TV programs because “it's the easiest way to wire-tap their private world” (Glasser, 58).

Not all together; better far, I guess, / That we do make our entrance several ways.

Slice the cheese thinly.

Says one Pentagon arms-control expert: Our setup was actually designed to act in time of general war like a chicken with its head cut off. The brain could be destroyed and the nervous system severed. Then the military muscles would just jerk in uncontrolled spasms.