Television and video games are rapidly becoming more and more popular in America. Not to mention that the average American spends more than an hour a day on the internet, versus 10 years ago when the average was little over a half-hour. Sites like Facebook and Twitter have made conversation with other people become little blurbs about what we see or feel at that exact moment. No one ever talks about what they feel or anything real and embarrassing because everyone can see it; even if it says, “private chat”. Between work or school and the internet, no one has time to themselves anymore unless you’re sleeping, which doesn’t really count as time to think.
In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit-451, society is a ignorant beast that doesn’t allow quality information to flow, leisure time to think, or the ability to carry out actions based on what you learn and feel is morally right. This future is full of emotionally distant people that don’t care even when the people closest to them go off to war and die. This is why people need to read: so that we don’t become emotional