The lifestyle people in the Fahrenheit 451 society lived was fast paced with too much stimulation and basically no time to concentrate and actually think through what they were doing. Bradbury thinks that the presence of fast cars, loud music, and advertisements destroys people’s brain. Although Bradbury doesn’t directly say this, he lets us know how he feels through Montag and what he disagrees with, he has Beatty say. Bradbury feels that technology disconnects from reality and poses the idea that destroying books is destroying knowledge and that promoting technology is promoting ignorance. Bradbury feels books are better than TV because they present the real thing and truth. What someone writes in a book is many times about their personal experience and their life. Books provide variance as opposed to TV which provides sameness and that’s what the people in this society aimed for.
I agree with Bradbury. Books provide more knowledge and when you read you feel like you have a better sense of understanding about something. Books also give different perspective, which I feel decreases one’s ignorance. TV makes you less active and lazy and it requires less thinking. I don’t think it changes when it comes to electronic books, like kindle. The fact that you are still reading what was technically once a book doesn’t really change what you can get out of it.
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