inequality makes ideologies slip through a sieve
Rather than the unequal distribution of wealth or the unbalanced proportions of a social hierarchy, Fahrenheit 451, a novel by Ray Bradbury, describes to the reader a future where the different ways of thinking itself is made unequal. With the commonplace censorship that occurs in post technologically revolutionized America, most books have been made illegal and television and radio has become the main source of information distribution, entertainment, and study. This banning of books forces Americans to all share the same view point due to the source of information being the same resulting in a lack of independent thoughts or inspiration. However, the banning of books came to be because a majority of the American people wanted the books to banned, disregarding the will of the minority or what they had to say. The banning of books prevents those who want to read from reading as well as the freedom of freely expressing one's ideas as knowledge derived from books is essentially nonexistent in the general populace. The effects of the lack of any meaningful spread of ideas or viewpoints shows in the void the people seem to have in their lives which is portrayed by their apathy towards others and the lack of concern for their own well being. Guy Montag, a fireman that now burns and destroys books to promote the same equality of ignorance in Americans that is internally killing them, is a shining example of the inequality of ideals in this new society. As he interacts and communicates with various characters throughout the story, his viewpoint changes from ignorance to a thirst for knowledge that can only be satisfied by books. However, due to his society's mindset, his way of thinking is deemed incorrect and his own society attempts to hunt him down for his stance on reading books. In the end, the decision to make books illegal, which was a decision that unequally disregards the minority of a society, is what ultimately destroys the concept of a different point of view.