How the messages of Fahrenheit 451 relate to today’s world
Do you really know the effects technology has on our society? Fahrenheit 451 is about a society that,much like ours today, is very technology based. Bradbury gives us a glimpse into what could be our future if we keep our focus on the new inventions that are coming out. Therefore, because of the ways our society is like the one in this book, the messages in it are extremely important for today. America’s electronic gadgets and entertainment are becoming more important than our personal relationships. Today, we even have robots that can model human-like responses and be companions to us. “Connected,but alone?” Yet another invention that has replaced real interaction
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Everyone has a cell phone nowadays. My little brother, who’s 9, knows how to use a phone more than my parents do and my sister spends a lot of time on Facebook. Since we have social media in our pockets, we are constantly connected. We are becoming dependent on it. Our dependence is making it harder to create things. In Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse points out to Montag that no one ever says anything new. When he asks Clarisse what people talk about, she says,”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” (31). “How does social media affect our creativity?” John Meyer, a musician, said,”I realized about a year ago that I couldn’t have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic… I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn’t write a song.” He isn’t the only one who says this. Our imagination is being blocked by our obsession with technology. There is now a clinical Internet Addiction disorder, which shows how serious this problem is.Our thought processes and creativity are affected by our use of social media. Therefore, we are coming closer to losing thought processes that are different than