If you want to know what Fahrenheit 451 is
about, look no further than your own neighborhood
...
Fahrenheit 451 was written in 1953, but if
I didn't know better, I'd say that Ray Bradbury
had traveled, oh, fifty-odd years into the
future, taken a look around, and went rushing
back to "the good old days" to write this
novel.
That's because Fahrenheit 451 tells the story
of a futuristic world in which people are
constantly "plugged in" to various sources
of entertainment.
The walls of their houses are actually enormous
TVs.
Newspapers are dead.
And did I mention that books are now illegal?
Sounds like a pretty monstrous place to live—and
it is.
There's plenty of information, just no knowledge.
There's more free time than ever, but no time
to really think.
There's stuff, stuff, and more stuff, but
the stuff that really feeds us—like nature,
and real connections with other people—has
been shut out by rampant materialism.
And the result is a society that's blind to
its own ignorance—and being destroyed by
it.
Sound familiar?
If not, you're exactly the audience Ray Bradbury
had in mind when he wrote his book.
Stick around before it's too late ...
