March Book Club- Fahrenheit 451 Post- Reading

      I think all Dystopic societies that appear to be Utopic are never good. There's always some kind of catch, there might be handicaps, punishments, executions, or rules where people have no say in anything. I think the worst kind of "Utopic" society would be the kind where you are so falsely happy, that you don't recognize the government's oppression on you.
 
 In my opinion, I would rather be told that I have no choice of my own, opposed to being so falsely happy that I have no idea of what's going on. What the government is doing to their people in this kind of society is brainwashing them so that they will obey the rules, while being tricked into thinking it's "the good life". Another reason this is such a bad kind of society is because people have no say in the kinds of laws that the government enacts or who's in charge, this could be bad for the people in the society. This could also lead to downfall of the community and maybe even the government itself.
     The book I read this month was Fahrenheit 451. In this book, I think the society was mixed between the people being falsely happy and them being told what to do. In the beginning of the book, Guy Montag was talking to Clarisse (a 17 year old girl that lives next door), she asked him if he was happy with his job, or in general. He answered by saying "of course", and "why wouldn't I be?". Later in the book, he starts think about what Clarisse asked him. He decided that he was not happy. This book never really talks about or explains any kind of government. They are told though that things like books and newspapers are not to be read. This could give people ideas about what times before this were like. If anyone does have books, the firemen are told to go to the house and burn it along with all of the books. The person who has the books is usually executed somehow. Some people choose to burn with their books because they don't want to be pressured anymore like they already are. This book is set in the twenty- fourth century, and so unlike now firefighters are sent to start fires instead of put them out. Both of these kinds of societies relate to other books we've read too, like Lord of the Flies, Anthem, Harrison Bergeron, and even the movie Antz.
     
Even though many people wish for perfect Utopic societies, we honestly can't complain because even though we have many bad things in our world, at least we aren't living in a pure Dystopic society. Thankfully we have a checks and balances system in our government that cares about us and our well being. I'll take the uncertainty of the world today over a Dystopic society any day.