Fahernheit 451
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Beatty has created a society in which people live but aren't alive. People feel smart but aren't intelligent. "Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy." Beatty took the freedom to think away when he burned books that provoked emotion and intelligence and created a society full of people like Mildred and the parlor ladies. People who don't need to worry because their husbands don't die in wars, they die by jumping off of buildings. Beatty believed as long as people in the society "felt intelligent" there was no reason to actually be intelligent...