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12. Beatty again talks about society. What were people interested in? List details. How did these

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Answer: According to Beatty, society got so overpopulated, so sensitive to insult, and so concerned with pleasure, that things which created divisions became so unwelcome as to be dangerous to social order itself. The startling point of Beatty's explanation is that censorship started with the people, not the government (although the government stepped in later in accordance with the people's wishes). Most people stopped reading books long before they were ever burned. In Fahrenheit 451, society evolved into Bradbury's dystopia after the population dramatically increased and technology improved. ... Eventually, the population stopped reading and preferred to consume mindless entertainment. The government capitalized on the population's ignorance by censoring literature altogether. He's the head honcho fireman, but he knows more about books than anyone else. He burns these texts with a fiery vengeance (wink wink), but he spends half his time quoting from them. ... He used to be curious about books, just like Montag is. He used to question the system, just like Montag.

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