Fahrenheit 451 question 6

If there was any reason in particular that would dictate the absolute undeniable reason for us actually still reading this book, I would not know. But I have some theories, so you'll just have to live with being adequately accepting of said theories, even if they are horribly wrong. So my response to this dilemma is to point out that this kind of book is to help raise awareness for this kind of thing. By thing I mean an oppressive society. It is simply saying that this is what an oppressive society is like, and if you ever find yourself in this kind of situation, you should immediately seek out the nearest underground resistance operation. Obviously to our current society it seems ridiculous that we would condemn books, but in the book, these people grew up with this kind of thing and understandably see it as morally correct. So this book isn't as much of a what to do in this kind of situation, as it is a we should never let this kind of thing happen. It would take a lot of circumstances for society to fall prey to this kind of oppression, but it is completely possible. The overall point is that the more people aware of this being able to happen, and able to recognize the signs, the less likely it will happen. All it would really take to spark something like this would be for there to be a massive war where nearly everyone dies off, and a few intellectuals are left to rebuild society. And these few intellectuals could possibly indoctrinate the new society into thinking that they were gods or something, and bam, you have an oppressive society. Or they could claim that some god had allowed them to rebuild society. They could even ditch the god thing, and just try and legitimately rebuild society with the best intentions, and some later generation takes advantage and assumes control. Societies can be very fragile things when it comes to unaware people.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451;. New York: Ballantine, 1953. Print.