Faber And Beatty In Fahrenheit 45

Knowledge is like data. Data includes facts, but it does not provide a way to apply the facts. In the same way, knowledge is important, however the ability to apply knowledge and use it as a springboard for independent thinking is the difference between knowledge and wisdom In Ray Bradley's book Fahrenheit 451 we see exactly what the difference is with Beatty and Faber. We also see that knowledge is power, with Beatty’s manipulation skills, what the world would be like without knowledge, and technology can create a barrier between you and obtaining knowledge.

Wisdom doesn't come straight from knowledge, nor does knowledge come from wisdom, Take Faber and Beatty for example. Faber teaches Guy one important lesson: it is not about the books.

Books reflect life and teach you, they are not a bad thing. Faber sees how the world has succumbed to electronics creating a lack of knowledge and even critical thinking.
(“My wife says books aren’t ‘real’” Guy
“Thank God for that.

You can shut them, say, ‘Hold on a moment.’ You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor? It grows you any shape it wishes! IT becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason.”) pg 84

In this way, he shows wisdom that he has gathered on his own about books. On the other hand, Beatty spits quotes and information he’s been fed his whole life yet with all this knowledge he never really thinks for himself. Beatty so blindly follows whatever they tell him is right and having no personal morals. That is another thing that separates these two, their morals.

Everyone knows the famous phrase “Knowledge is power”, but in a way, it is true. Even though Faber is wise, he does not have a place of power like Beatty.

(“Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, Sir Philip Sidney said. On the other hand, Words are like leaves and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found, Alexander Pope. What do you think of that Montag?”) pg

106
Beatty is using his knowledge to intimidate and manipulate Guy into thinking reading is stupid and a waste of time, and because of Montag’s lack of knowledge he agrees. Looking back Montag is not the first person he has done this to, there is a reason he is the chief. We also can refer to history for another example that knowledge is power with world war two. Hitler was an amazing speaker and very knowledgeable, he uses this to “brainwash” Germans into thinking Jews were bad and they needed to get rid of them. Just think if more people had thought for themselves and formed their own opinion, we might not have had a war.
Imagine a society without knowledge and self-thinking, that would be an intimidating place to live no one would be able to imagine or formulate their own ideas. Would we have the technology we have today? Well to have all these inventions we have today we would need inventors, and to be an inventor there is a lot of self thinking and facts that go into creating something. In Fahrenheit 451 there is earbuds and toasters that butter your toast for you, although even though no one reads, the government can't have people living like cavemen so they must have inventories that watch videos on physics, electronics or whatever is necessary. Would we run the government in a different way? We might end up having voters like Mrs. Bowls, she only cares about his accouterments not his political views. (“ I voted last election, same as everyone and I laid it on the line for President Noble. I think he is one of the nicest looking men ever to become president”. Pg 96). Yet aren't we acting this way now? Elections have changed for the worst, now it is a televised “roasting” for our entertainment with little politics. It is a slippery slope to a world without intelligence and we are headed that way.
Electronics, they come in all shapes and sizes and can be used for almost anything.

Technology today is advancing so quickly everyone is trying to get the new one and are so absorbed into what they can do sometime they don't ever look up. Mildred has been exactly the same always wanting more (It’s really fun. It'll be even more fun when the fourth wall is installed? Pg 20). She doesn't even care there is a world out there to see she just wants to watch with her “family”. If we become so wrapped up in technology things around us will change and we won't even care, as long as I have my TV, Cell phone, Instagram, ext. Mildred and her friends don't even know how much has changed and how much they have been brainwashed. They no longer care about the past, and how things use to be, all that matters are the next show. People today are the same, even though we don’t sit inside all day and let the government do what they want doesn’t mean we aren’t that far away from it. Burwell was a 31-year-old man who died in San Diego by accidentally walking off a cliff because he was distracted by his cell phone. More than 3,000 teens die each year in crashes caused by texting while driving. We can use our self-phones to learn languages, see the news, gather information on anything we want, still we just use it for Instagram and

Facebook.
If we don’t understand the importance of knowledge, facts, and wisdom we will end up just like the people in Fahrenheit 451. Each a brainwashed zombie, or a society with the technology and education of cave men. Also If we don’t really take into consideration what technology is doing to us it could get dangerous. Fahrenheit 451 is a good book that shows us a future that could be ours if we are not careful.