Dystopian Government In Fahrenheit 451

As founding father Alexander Hamilton once wrote in the Federalist Papers, “Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments”. True freedom is not complete governmental control, nor is it every specific demand of the people. Rather, a government is to reflect its diverse people. As Ray Bradbury enjoys poking fun at loopholes this notion causes in his novel Fahrenheit 451, he presents many instances in which the government changes to meet the desires of its people, rather than the needs. Three factors run the self-corrupt dystopian country; the people that brought about the change, the people that enforce it, and consequently what exactly these changes result in. The fact of the matter is, the government is

Because it appears that this seems to be too drastic a change, one would easily believe that the government was to blame. However, the people of this world slowly fell into an odd mindset; they wish for only convenience, therefore everything must be faster. Nothing can deliver potentially offensive messages, and subsequently reiterating that everyone must be equal so as to ensure that no despair arises from the imbalance of talent, intelligence, power, or wealth. Beatty, a knowledgeable fireman, even states that “It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no no dictum, no declaration, no censorship to start with, no!” (Bradbury 58). The true carrier of the pathogenic disease known as laziness was technology. Technology, which, ironically enough, was a change brought by the people. The government would no longer be a government if they denied this change that became much more powerful as an influence on their own people than they themselves have