Imagine a world where words and pages are burnt into ashes, a world that destroys and has forgotten how to build, where the human race cannot think thoughts except ones that they are given to them, and can’t remember what it feels like to know why one cries. In this world, one created by Ray Bradbury in the novel Fahrenheit 451, humans have forgotten even themselves. These people are ignorant of the fire that surrounds them, and are blind that the match that created that fire came from their own hands. They are being censored by the government and are also censoring themselves from the knowledge that took humanity thousands of years to create and from feelings that are too painful to feel. In this future world, the humans have become disconnected from each other. No one talks to each other and has any real conversations. For instance, when a neighbor in the novel talks regularly with her family, she is
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