(MIP-2) This control, although empowering additionally causes people to lose vital parts of what makes them human. (SIP-A) Due to the restrictions on knowledge, citizens of the society have lost some of their humanity and respect for human life. (STEWE-1) This inadequacy of respect can be directly attributed to the restrictions set by the government. These restrictions have left people with a deficiency of caring and humanity, and thus have caused people to hurt each other, “beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?" (Bradbury 27). This increase of violence in the world is due to the fact that the government has controlled the amount of memory and knowledge in the society. This control, although giving power to the government, causes people to lose their
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I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls” (Bradbury 78). By making people only listen to the government they have also eliminated any chance for them to listen to anyone else, and thus it causes people to be self centered and to only care about themselves, “‘The favorite subject, Myself.’‘I understand that one’” (Bradbury 68). This self obsession and absence of communication seen in people of the community is a direct effect of the control the government has on people and their knowledge and memory. (STEWE-2) But the government allows for people to share generic communication, not true communication. By again giving a misconception to people about what true communication is, they are able to have people go on with their lives thinking they are communicating when in reality the government still has the same control on people that it always has. “‘People don't talk about anything.’‘Oh, they must!’‘No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming-pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else” (Bradbury
I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me. I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls” (Bradbury 78). By making people only listen to the government they have also eliminated any chance for them to listen to anyone else, and thus it causes people to be self centered and to only care about themselves, “‘The favorite subject, Myself.’‘I understand that one’” (Bradbury 68). This self obsession and absence of communication seen in people of the community is a direct effect of the control the government has on people and their knowledge and memory. (STEWE-2) But the government allows for people to share generic communication, not true communication. By again giving a misconception to people about what true communication is, they are able to have people go on with their lives thinking they are communicating when in reality the government still has the same control on people that it always has. “‘People don't talk about anything.’‘Oh, they must!’‘No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming-pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else” (Bradbury