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Fahrenheit 451 written by Ray Bradbury is about a world in the future where books are outlawed and everything is censored. “Firemen”, burn any books that are found and those who are in possession of the books are arrested.

There is an ancient greek myth about a trojan princess named Cassandra. She was cursed by the god Apollo for rejecting his affection. Her curse was that she could foresee the future but no one would believe her predictions. She saw the fall of her empire and her own death, but no one took her warnings seriously. It can be said that Ray Bradbury is a sort of “Cassandra”. He produced a surplus amount of predictions for the future that have been carried out already.

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One large example is the idea that everyone is obsessed with being constantly entertained, always by technology. Everything everyone does is big, loud, and fast. And this entertainment is not only used as a way to distract society but to control it.

I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He’s a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar- crystal and saccharine when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs.” This quote most definitely supports the original example. What this quote is saying is that, the way that the entertainment industry is portraying this specific religious figure is to benefit them. They have watered down the importance of religion so much that it is acceptable for advertisers to use them in their strain to convince viewers of what they believe or need the viewers to