The life of guy Montag, a fireman in a near future dystopia to make an argument against mindless conformity and blissful ignorance
The sentence that is correctly hyphenated is "The beauty of Mount Fuji's near-perfect cone shape has enchanted people for centuries."
Near-perfect is correctly hyphenated because in this context it is a compound modifier, it modifies Mount Fuji's appearance.
I haven't seen anything but cowardice and expediency.