Comment about Fahrenheit

Beatty tries to describe the society that discard all unnecessary, time-wasting thoughts. Since the twentieth century, with the huge development of technology everything became faster, instant, easier. But as most books were written before these years in which all kinds of texts are short, people have to spend lot of time reading them. That is why people stopped doing it, because they now read one column, two sentences, a headline, because that’s all what they need, Captain Beatty says.

Nowadays, this tendency is getting stronger. With all the new technologies life is becoming more comfortable (easier, faster, unproblematic, simpler) and time-saving. It only takes 5 minutes to look for information in the internet; with cars you save a lot of time if you have to go somewhere; with cell-phones you can communicate instantly with persons that are in different places; with television you know what is happening at this right moment in the other side of the world; films tells you what a book is about in only 2 hours, and lot further.

Also, people look for the easiest way to do things. E.g.: adolescents are not interested in doing their homework; they don’t’ think about their future, they only plan the way to pass the exams. They don’t mind if they don’t think, learn, reason or analyse different matters.