The Importance of Fahrenheit 451 Today The Importance of Fahrenheit 451 Today can be very detailed and prophetic when we take an in-depth look at our American society. While we don't live in a communist environment with extreme warfare going on, we have acquired technologies similar to what Bradbury talked about in Fahrenheit 451 and a stubborn civilization that abstains from the little things we should enjoy. Bradbury sees America's future as a dystopia, yet we continue to champion problematic issues without the title of disaster, as they are well hidden beneath our democracy today. Fahrenheit 451 is very similar to our world today which includes television, the loss of free speech, and the loss of education and the use of books. Patai explains that Bradbury's "living room walls," mentioned in Fahrenheit 451, are very similar to the televisions we have today. We have televisions of different sizes that are increasingly approaching the size of a wall. Nowadays, families can accommodate numerous televisions, especially in bedrooms, living rooms and sometimes even kitchens. Near the end of Fahrenheit 451, Montag is beamed through the living room walls after killing Captain Beatty. Ultimately, those who broadcast the turn of events made up a story to keep the public calm after losing track of Montag. Televisions offer dramatized and unimaginative reality shows. Television also broadcasts television series and films with graphic details of wars and fighting. Bradbury was not attracted to television as others were because he believed that "their optimism, their willingness to have faith in a future in which the self-destruction of civilizations will come to a halt, has to do with their belief in changed relationship between human beings and their world” says Lee (Lee 1). In “As the Constitution Says” by Joseph F. Brown, Brown talks about an NEA experiment that found that Americans read less and less and our comprehension skills are drastically declining because of it (Brown 4). Bradbury saw little use in the technology created in his time, and shunned airplanes, driving cars, and eBooks. Bradbury didn't even allow his book to be sold and read on eBook until 2011. If you take away the books, then you take away the imagination. If you take away imagination, you also take away creativity. If you take away creativity, you also take away new ideas for technology and the progress of the world. Nowadays people have lost interest in books because they see them as a waste of time and useless effort, and they are losing critical thinking, understanding of things around them and knowledge. Brown states that Bradbury suggests that a world without books is a world without imagination and without his ability to find happiness. People in Fahrenheit 451 are afraid of reading books because of the emotions they feel