451 "on Fahrenheit

451 ° according to Fahrenheit - the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. The philosophical anti -utopia Bradbury draws a hopeless picture of the development of a post -industrial society: this is the world of the future, in which all written publications are ruthlessly destroyed by a special detachment of firefighters, and the storage of books is persecuted according to the law, interactive television successfully serves universal wrapping, punitive psychiatry decisively deal with rare dissuming, and hunting. For incorrigible dissidents, an electric dog goes ...
Bradbury’s statement in 2007 was sensational that "451 ° according to Fahrenheit" is understood incorrectly. This book is not about government censorship, it is a story about how television destroys interest in reading books.
In the early 1950s, most Americans did not see the TV in the eye, but Bradbury predicted the onset of a new era of freedom, prosperity and entertainment, when the desire to be happy, multiplied by political correctness, will lead to a prohibition