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Friday, April 7, 2017

Why should I bother writing a pointless title that nobody's going to care about; are titles even important?



   Ray Bradbury's predictions throughout the book of the society Montag lives in is a bleak and hopeless one--not to mention is aligns perfectly with the description of our own current Society.

   From the way the occupants of this Depressingly dismal distopia to the way even Mildred ODs on sleeping pills damn near killing herself or the "Seashell Radios" in every god damned ear, Bradbury was spot on with how he felt we would live our lives 50-60 years from when he was hunched over a typewriter like Quasimodo in Notre Dame.

   In regards to how Mildred could give two less fucks about what was going on in the world, how she only wanted to watch a screen, and how Kids are so entranced with their Phones and other Electronic distractions(such as right now, nobody cares enough to contribute to our Socratic seminar and I'm doing the majority of the talking).

   When the Hound is on the chase for Montag, and they resort to killing an innocent civilian when he throws it off his trail, it parallels how even our own Police Department lied about an arrest they made for an entire year before it was uncovered. It also parallels with "Operation Northwoods", a False-Flag Cuban terror operation against US civilians to gain support for the invasion/occupation of Cuba, to overthrow Fidel Castro's Communist regime.

   Finally, the Violence in Montag's society seems to parallel our current world, with Clarrisse stating something along the lines of "two of my friends were killed this just past month, everyone's so violent these days, killing each other for fun..." This oddly enough brings to mind the school shootings and the violence in Pop Culture, for example games like Grand Theft Auto V or Call of Duty you kill other players in very realistic ways, which may have ties to the violence previously stated.

   Taking into account all of my previous claims and the provided evidence, one can come to the assumption that there are many parallels in Fahrenheit 451 and today's society.

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