What exactly is the prediction made my ray bradbury in fahrenheit 451?

Question

I think i get what the book says, but is it making a prediction?

Answer 1

His prediction is that in the future the government will exercise more control over the people it governs. It will control what we read, etc. It is the concept of big government - based a lot on the Mc Carthy hearings of the 50's when Senator Mc Carthy believed he had the right to spy on regular citizens in order to weed out communists. Kind of like what Bush feels about illegal wiretapping in the name of National Security - no?

Answer 2

Actually, I'm going to go against the above person.

I think he was prophesizing the defeat of the mind by the mediocre. It is startling how accurate he is: people's preoccupation with multimedia stars, ignorance of war and world issues, a mindless pursuit of the American dream and selfish pleasure, the degradation of our literature. These days the average newspaper has to write at an 8th grade reading level. Students read cliff notes to get enough of a gist of whatever topic to pass their next exam and promptly forget it. Country music glorifys uneducated rednecks.

He predicts that our culture will continue on in its current bent of self-gratification to the exclusion of any real thought and education.

It is a scary premise.

Answer 3

thqat books will be banished