https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l Oo firemen en-us 2021-08-27 03:53:05 UTC 2025-10-22 03:58:50 UTC hello@padlet.com zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1700050965 "Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy"]]> 2021-08-27 03:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1700050965 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1700051453 "Well, I'd say it really got started around about a thing called the Civil War. Even though our rule-book claims it was founded earlier."]]> 2021-08-27 03:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1700051453 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705466401 "But then the world got full of eyes and elbows and mouths. Double, triple, quadruple population."

]]> 2021-08-30 22:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705466401 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705469055 "Films and radios, magazines, books levelled down to a sort of paste pudding norm, do you follow me"

"Books cut shorter. Condensations, Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending."


]]> 2021-08-30 22:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705469055 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705472563 Since books are written by different people, each of them with their own beliefs and opinions, there will inevitably be contradictions between each other + minorities become offended by books' contents.

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities."

"The bigger your market, Montag, the
less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities
with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your
typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca."]]> 2021-08-30 22:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705472563 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705476729 "But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!" 
Beatty emphasizes that people stopped reading books off their own accord, it was not an order by the government, but rather evidence of society becoming more sensitive and maturing. 

"Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Bum the
book. Serenity, Montag. Peace, Montag. Take your fight outside. Better yet, into the incinerator." 

"Burn them all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."]]> 2021-08-30 23:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705476729 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705480545 Beatty references the U.S Constitution, "Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal." 

This is to explain why critical thinking and curiosity like in Clarisse is so rare among children in the current age: 
"Surely you remember the boy in your own school class
who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike."- Everyone in America must be equally smart... or equally dense alike. ]]> 2021-08-30 23:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705480545 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705481292 "You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country,
above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they?"]]> 2021-08-30 23:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705481292 zackary_chong_kim_leong https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705483067 "The fact is we
didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then--motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to
have mass." 
Great strides made in technology ^
Firemen started to do their duties only in the early 20th century ]]> 2021-08-30 23:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zackary_chong_kim_leong/lk8670olvh9ayk1l/wish/1705483067