A world where it is forbidden to read and where firefighters are responsible to arrange the burnings! How did it happen?
The radio. The television. The element masses then entered the scene. [...] And this element masses then simplified the problems, said Beatty. First, the books nintéressaient that minorities here and there. [...] The films and radio, magazines, books were leveled, standardized form as a kind of pudding batter. [...] The Conventional reduced emissions to compose of a quarter of an hour on the radio. [...] Digest digests. Politics? One column, two sentences a title! And all evaporates in the air. The brain of man whirls at such a rate as cupping hands of publishers, producers, presenters that centrifugal force eliminates any wasted time, unnecessary approach in mind. [...] All that matters the job and after work, spoiled for choice really distractions. [...] Increase the dose for each sport, develop team spirit, competition, and the need to think is eliminated, right? [] Multiply comics, movies; mind has less dappétits. [] And now, Montag, the government entries for nothing in there. No order, no declaration of censure to the starting point. No! Technology lexploitation factor of masses, pressure on minorities and, God thank you, the tour was played. [...] You have to understand that our society is so vast that we can not afford dinquiéter or disturbing our minorities. The Negroes do not like Little Black Sambo: burn it. Tom LONCLE of the box does not appeal to the white burn there. "
Navez not you the impression to have been through this? Through this short novel (where poetic imagination Bradbury SexEducator without much dexcès) so read the adventures of fireman Montag jusquoù and follow the growth of the awakening critical and its fight against a soft dictatorship which condemned citizens to a stifling happiness.