'Our Future Envisioned in
'Our Future Envisioned in Fahrenheit 451' Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in the twenty-fourth century in which the first amendment has lost its value. As a result, people in this society are depressed, ignorant, and uneducated. To the contemporary American losing freedom of speech seems highly unlikely. However, Bradbury provides a convincing account of how books came to be burnt in what was once a free nation. The character Beatty describes how technology displaces thinking, pressure from minorities started censorship, and the educational system failed to produce educated people. First of all, technology replaced all thought process in a person's brain. "The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour." (Pg. 56) New inventions were created everyday, all of them making life easier and quicker paced. A man got more done in a day than he would have done in a week a year ago. Because of this, everyone's expectations to get things accomplished rose, but their expectations to think dim
Many religious groups want to get rid of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge. Next, the population grew and minorities increased, it was the pressure from these offended minorities that caused censorship to begin. One of them being that book burning is common in communities today. And because they had mass, they became simpler. "School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. The minds, then, drinks less and thinks less. Instructors had come up with another abstract pattern; professors would throw tons of facts at their pupils until they couldn't take any more and thus they would feel brilliant. Bradbury does a good job of providing a convincing account, to the reader, of how censorship became the policy in a once free nation. The government didn't want the minorities to stir and cause riots. People weren't challenged, and therefore, their minds developed to a smaller extent. This is also practiced in advertising.
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