In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a dystopian society is banned from reading and owning books. Instead of fighting fires and putting them out, firemen go to people's houses and burn the books. Since there aren't any books, people spend almost all of their time watching TV on the walls of their parlors. The parlors are the propaganda used to control the humans. The government believes that without books, people aren't getting offended by someone's book, so the simplest thing to do is to get rid of all of them in general. But this harms the intelligence and attention span of others. You can't keep someone's attention for that long, and even if you do, it isnt an interesting conversation.
It's ridiculous. I would not want to live in this society. They arent really happy since at least 10 people try to kill themselves every night, even though they cant remember the next that they tried. The firemen think that they are doing the right thing and it will help people be happier. But they aren't, With people watching the TV 24/7 the media can control everyone in this society. The media controls them.
In this story, humans are kept in control all of the time. Everyone is the same and talk about the same things. To be human in this story is to watching TV and do as the rules say. You cannot question what is happening and you cannot go against the rules.
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