https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship How plausible is the future envisioned in this novel? Specifically, do you think the author provides a convincing account of how censorship became so rampant in this society? en-us 2016-11-14 17:49:33 UTC 2025-12-13 06:44:36 UTC hello@padlet.com rockfire573 https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140482711 In this novel the future is very plausible because if you look back at history and what Beatty is saying people tend to go from not liking a certain thing to getting others to not liking that certain thing. Such as in the book they go from not liking books to hating books fully, and in real life in some societies there are still people who are trying to force people into hating people who are gay and try to punish them with death, like they do with the books in Fahrenheit 451. The gay people are like a minority and in the book Beatty says “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. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwaser. No wonder books stop selling, the critics said. 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! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals.” [57-58] which means that the minorities instigate the change and that the minority become the majority and that the government have to keep the peace so they instigate the peace by getting rid of the books by the way of the firemen.  ]]> 2016-11-29 13:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140482711 morganprestonc https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140483778 I think if we continue to live our lives while using technology obsessively then it is very plausible for this to happen. I think it is plausible because Even now with popular internet trends people are trying to conform with others to "fit in". This is the main reason of why everybody in the book is the same and act like robots because they all live off of technology and listen and watch the same things all the time. As Beatty said "It didn't come from the government down. There was no dictum,no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation..."(pg 58) This quote shows that the the monotonous way of thinking came from people using technology and not the government censoring things. The government censorship did not start until most people did not even read books.]]> 2016-11-29 13:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140483778 lilialy28 https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140484467 We think that this future is very plausible. Many people today have multiple devices that they quickly become obsessive over. Even the people that enjoy reading have turned to technology for entertainment. Soon it is possible that the only form of entertainment will be shallow and unstimulating. In the book this one track minded way of thinking is perfectly demonstrated by Guy Montag's wife, Mildred. In the book on page 99,  Mildred is making fun of books by saying "Ladies, once a year, every firemans allowed to bring one book home, from the old days, to show his family how silly it all was, hoe nervous that sort of thing can make you, how crazy." With this way of thinking our reality could quickly become the reality in the book.]]> 2016-11-29 13:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140484467 hhecht2001 https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140486601

This future envisioned in Fahrenheit 451 is very plausible. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury predicts a future in which censorship becomes rampant in society. One example of Bradbury trying to show this is when he writes about Mildred and her seashells and states, "And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind. The room was indeed empty. Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time." This quote talks about how Mildred spends most of her time with these seashells in her ears. These seashells are equivalent to modern day earphones. We  see this in today's society as much of today's youth spends most of its free time listining to music on their earphones. The censorship in this society became so rampant not only because the government imposed it but also came naturally as people began to accept it. this is supported by Beatty when he states that people slowly began to reject books and eduction to have fun. The censorship in this society became so rampant because people accepted it and no one opposed to it.]]> 2016-11-29 13:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140486601 neesjaredp https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140488003 We don't think that the future envisioned in this novel can actually happen in our current day society because our society is educated and can avoid this as an outcome. On page 55 Guy Montag says “School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, and languages dropped, English and spelling gradually gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?” By saying this Guy Montag states that the intelligence of his society has dropped over time because of relaxed education laws. This in return could be why the government has been able to trick people into believing what's right from wrong.]]> 2016-11-29 13:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140488003 rockfire573 https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140490125 This society comes to play because of how people's attitude were previously towards books. They felt angered because others would be more intelligent than them, they felt  offended when something didn't apply to them. The books appeal simply diminished in the eyes of the people. Beatty explain to Montag and the audience how book burning commenced. People didn't want book, they shifted from novels to tv, from knowledge to entertainment. However that wasn't enough, with others still reading there was a tear in importance. If almost everyone doesn't want to read, then no one can. "Not everyone born free and equal ,as the constitution says, but everyone made equal."-Beatty [58] The book does a very excellent job of presenting how the future may come to be. The future presented is highly plausible. The author's accuracy in predicting the technologies of the future is quite impressive. Like the seashells as earbuds, wide screen TVs, very fast cars, and moving sidewalks. ]]> 2016-11-29 13:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140490125 gardnerlyndsaye https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140564533  The future envisioned in this novel is not very plausible because unlike the 1960's now a days people spread rumors like wildfire and always spread new ideas so it is impossible for the people to be out of tune with their emotions. The internet plays a big part in why that future cannot happen, people will always get curious and with the internet they would be able to find out everything. However, a lot of the things that were introduced in this story exist today such as wall TV's (Flat Screen) and ear buds. The author provided a convincing account of how censorship became rampant in this society such as the government controlling information for example the society made people think like this, "Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular Damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!" quoted from the story on pg.38. The society and government made itself believe the key to happiness is to burn all books because they don't agree with each other. So, yes, the author provides a convincing account of how censorship being so rampant especially by giving clues on how it began as said by Captain Beatty on pg. 53 - 63.]]> 2016-11-29 16:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140564533 lordkorii https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140565013 We believe that the future shown in the novel would not be very plausible. The possibility that everyone would collectively agree to get rid of books is very slim. Our government today is supposed to be run by the people based on what is needed and wanted. In order for the (American) government to outlaw books, we would need a majority vote and little resistance. Even if this happened, it would be near impossible to find and burn all the books in the US. Most people would move to a new country and have books there.
In addition, the idea of a government pleasing everyone is a dream every government system dreams of. The government system in Fahrenheit 451 revolves around making everyone know that they are happy and all is okay. They don't give the people a choice. It is either: go through life as a happy, ignorant person; or go through life unhappy, knowing what is really happening, and a disgrace!]]> 2016-11-29 16:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140565013 hoangnicholash https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140566237
(This was written specifically on censorship since I interpreted that to be the topic and did not include anything about technology. "Specifically...censorship")

(Thesis) Fahrenheit 451 is a novel that was written 63 years ago speculating a future dystopian society where censorship is so heavy that the society completely discourages creative thinking. Ray Bradbury's writing purpose was to warn and discourage any use of censorship at all.
(Topic Sentence) The author provides a very convincing account on how censorship became so rampant in the dystopian society of Fahrenheit 451. Bradbury shows this during the conversation between Beatty and Montag. "'You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can't have minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn't that right?" (Bradbury 56) Bradbury is stating that the censorship all started out because there were many conflicts on controversial topics and this sparked civil unrest between different groups. In order to keep the people happy and to stop the civil unrest, the government started the practice of censorship. "'Colored 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 the cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book."' (Bradbury 57) Bradbury even directly states how the censorship in this dystopian society started and became so rampant. "'Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so damned the snobbish critics said, were dishwater, No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex magazines, of course."' This quote states that the code of conduct of this dystopian society, all creative thinking being censored, was not produced by the government but by the people in an effort to keep everyone happy.
(Topic Sentence) With many years having passed, the future envisioned in this book is very plausible. This dystopian society that Ray Bradbury did not want to happen is almost exactly the philosophy of some societies and can be distinctly seen in almost every modern society. For example, every single communist country similarly follows the philosophy envisioned by Bradbury because their leaders want the people to be unaware of the situation that their country is in and want to discourage rebelling by eliminating the spread of ideas and information. Some parts of Bradbury's dystopian society are even seen here in the United States of America and could be a possibility of our future if not handled correctly. Almost every single society tends to censor controversial topics due to the fact that they may cause a riot from people who have differing opinions or are offended by the opinions of these controversial topics. This can easily be seen on news stations, radios, and all across the internet. (I'd prefer to not include examples in the possibility I might start a political debate or a war on other controversial topics------>Example of Censorship).
I attached a perfect example of this philosophy. (This video is not my property and all video rights belongs to Olivia LeComte.)]]> 2016-11-29 16:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140566237 reynoldsamayar https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140576121 The ability of Bradbury to envision the future in this novel is quite extraordinary. He describes censorship in stark detail to what has become the modern reality in some aspects. He envisioned societies in which the state controls and manipulates the media, entertainment, and society as a whole. This come to light in countries such as North Korea, China, as well as Cuba. The quote “Cram them full of noncombustible, chock them so 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.” (Bradbury,61). This shows how the government makes the society think they have knowledge and know helpful information, but they in actuality don’t. By doing this they are censoring the information that these people know, adding to the prevention of thinking itself. Bradbury rightfully shows how censorship is so evident in this society and how it is perceived to be continued throughout this novel.

]]> 2016-11-29 17:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140576121 lingermanalexist https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140614297 Bradbury is extremely metaphorical. Everything in this book is symbolized by something. Kerosene represents guilt. Clarisse represents hope. Beatty represents the government. Everything has a meaning, everyone has a purpose. That's what makes this book so interesting and sometimes confusing. Everyone can look at it a different way. Sure the metaphors listed above are ideal. But maybe, for some people, Beatty represents their parents. Maybe Clarisse represents someone's sister who died. It can mean anything. ]]> 2016-11-29 18:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140614297 emmacd092900 https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140614863 Ray Bradbury was an amazing writer, and his imagination was incredible. He looked around and saw a dark future that definitely was plausible almost seventy years ago. 
Like in Fahrenheit 451, there are millions of people who are 'oddballs' or don't fit in to what people want, and hopefully, those people will always be around to stop censorship and go against the status quo. 
When Bradbury created his world, he built a universe where censorship had become so vast that people had almost lost the ability to think for themselves. This censorship goes beyond government control. People turn each other in to the firefighters, and betray their families and friends. Not only are books censored, but human emotions and people's thoughts are controlled and limited. 
"The televisor is real. it is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. it seems so right. it rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest." 
Technology has become so vast it thinks for us, and considering that is true for many people today, yes, Bradbury provides convincing evidence for how censorship is so rampant. ]]> 2016-11-29 18:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140614863 johnsonsydneyl https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140614937 The society showcased in F451 is definitely plausible. A society obsessed with television and technology isn't all to far away from our own. The society in F451 is much more invested and concerned with their technology, so much more so than their own lives at some points, an example being Mildred unable to remember where she met Guy. Our own society may actually be beginning this transition; many people can't dare leave their houses without their phones. Often times people own multiple technological devices. We are slowly becoming more dependent on technology;

I also believe Bradbury does at good job at how the gov't and technology has slowly been censoring society. The government has established firemen as destroyers of books; books that can tell about different ideas and ways of thinking. Because of the possibilities showcased in all sorts of books (fictional books can show themes of courage and rebellion, while non-fiction books can show different viewpoints and tell information). the government seeks to get rid of them to try and stop the promotion of different ideas. To try and keep society's thoughts the same, the development of technology and 'TV' helps provide citizens with not only a nice entertainment, but a good way to slowly change the way people think. If everybody is slowly growing more concerned with their 'TV' than their own lives/thoughts, minds can be warped to the point of obedience.

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]]> 2016-11-29 18:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140614937 jassofaithg https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140616780 In this novel, the future is very plausible. At the time this book was written, technology was limited. Now, the same technology mentioned in this novel has been created and is used more today. For example, Bradbury writes, "And something more! It listens! If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can sit comfortably home, warming my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen's world, find its weaknesses, without danger. I'm the queen bee, safe in the hive. You will be the drone, the traveling ear..." (Bradbury 90) which is comparable to a Bluetooth ear piece used today. Bradbury includes a convincing amount of how censorship became so rampant society by explaining that when a group of people is offended by expression, the society just gets rid of it. Today, society restricts the expression of speech (to an extent) on the internet and in the classrooms to avoid offending a certain group of individuals.]]> 2016-11-29 18:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140616780 barnesarmonl https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140616855 The future envisioned in "Fahrenheit 451" is not plausible in our society, specifically the United States. In our society, we value freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The future depicted in this novel would be difficult, or even impossible to accomplish. In the chapter, Beatty said "People want to be happy... Don't we give them fun?". Beatty believes that his job of burning books keeps people happy because he is eliminating new ideas from entering the society. To have most people believe this in our society would be almost impossible to accomplish. The author does not provide a convincing account of how censorship became so rampant in this society.

]]> 2016-11-29 18:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140616855 lingermanalexist https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140618499 I think this society is extremely plausible. People (especially teens) are so wrapped up in technology these days, that it's not long before that's all we have left. Books are slowly getting edged out by smart phones, laptops, apple watches, etc. Even toddlers know how to use phones today.  I also think that Bradbury has a lot of convincing points that this dystopia will become a reality. Considering all the points listed above, I'm scared for our future. So, in conclusion, yes, this scenario is possible, and there is plenty of reason that it will one day become a reality]]> 2016-11-29 18:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/140618499 gabriela05hernandez https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/141011314 We believe that the future envisioned in this novel is highly plausible. This is due to how much technology is incorporated into our daily lives as humans. Most of the population has some type of technology that is important to the way the that they live. Students use computers to do homework and many occupations require the employee to use some type of tech. Not only do we use they for work but we use technology in our free time. So much that many people develop a issues when being away from there phones for to long. As a result  people subconsciously form a bond so strong that it causes the owner of the technology , being it a phone, computer or tablet, to belive what it's shiny screen displays. The government today could easily make a video whose purpose was to brainwash U.S. and we would do the work. We see this in the novel we it talks about Mildred having her seashells in like she has no cares in the world. This also goes to how Bradbury has shown us as readers how the government got the society in 451 to mindlessly follow them. He also show us this by talking about how children get less education. Most people dislike attending school thus if offered less schooling and you still got your dream job , almost everyone would attend school not caring what they learned. Another big aspect is the burning of the books. The author makes sure we know that books are a bad thing therefore they must be destroyed and so they wrote history books saying that this is always how it's been and how it will be.
 ]]> 2016-12-01 04:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/141011314 lingermanalexist https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/141845590 The antagonist in this novel is the government or higher power. Think about it. Whoever they are, they've convinced everyone that literature isn't important and has turned the entire fire force against the people. That's a pretty powerful force. But let's back up for a second. There hasn't been word of an actual higher power. Maybe there is later in the book, but as of now, there isn't. So what is Montag fighting against? He is fighting for books. for knowledge. For education. For humanity. If he can convince people that there is a better way of living out there somewhere, than he can save everyone from their selves. Because right now, they are literally burning their own future. ]]> 2016-12-05 18:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/141845590 https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/315522901 2018-12-18 14:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/315522901 https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/1191191564 2021-02-11 08:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonjade/technologyandcensorship/wish/1191191564