The Man or the Government?

It seems that I only get on the nets in the wee hours of the morning. I apologize for any incoherence because of this. All else fails wait until the wee hours of the morning to READ it. Then you'll be able to read it due to 'Wee-Morn-Hour-Filter'.

I continue. Okay, I skived off on really saying anything about Fahrenheit 451 yesterday...or whenever that was, but I knew I'd come back and say something about it eventually. I liked it too much not too. xD

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Guy Montag spends his life in happy oblivion. There's no reason not too thanks to the American way of living. Reality TV, fast cars, propaganda, sleeping pills/drugs. Everything to keep you oblivious right at your fingertips.

But then Guy meets Clarisse. A seventeen-year-old girl who turns his life upside down by looking at the stars and telling him that once there was a time when people just sat. Sometimes people would sit and talk or not talk and that was that. Other times those people would sit and think. Thinking.

Written more than fifty years ago this book is set in a disturbingly familiar setting. You guessed it. Bradbury manages to hit what society was coming to right on the head. In the future no one reads anymore. Because people don't read the government decides to take one step further and burn objectionable books. The Bible, Thoreau, Poe, Hamlet...all burned by the fireman. No outcry is made because only a few are left that love books.

So what's scarier? The government taking over or the people not caring?

->This really emphasizes the importance of philosphy and literature in life and what could happen if we cast it all aside. There isn't a way you can read it without thinking deep. Bradbury is just awesome like that.