I think Captain Beatty is saying that a book is like a
weapon; because of all the ideas a book can hold. In their society they have
been taught to fear books. Books hold the power; that the government is taking
away from people. In my opinion the ideas are the bullets and the book is the
gun. The books in their society may be a symbol of power. And what it seems
like their government is trying to make everyone just about the exact same, so
they’ll stop people from reading. If they read they’ll get ideas and from those
ideas they make their own and start thinking for themselves.
To me in
the book for why it was easier to ban books than to teach people to think; was
that maybe with their reliance on technology. With the people just relaying on
technology they stopped thinking for themselves, when they have all that
technology doing it for them. For example Mildred she doesn’t do anything but
watch the parlor walls, that’s all she ever does I thinks that’s all she knows
how to do. Once the books were banned they took control of the people because
they don’t think for themselves and probably don’t care about book anymore, that
was when their government made them fear books.
I can see
this happening to our society. People are starting to relay more on technology.
In school you see more technology being used and less and less books being used
as a source for education. There has
been books banned, and burned which are ways of censorship. I believe
censorship is another way of stopping ideas from being shared. With technology
advancing so fast, soon are society will be ruined by technology. Also like in
the book our society will be dumbed down, and wont think for themselves anymore.
We might even be controlled and have all books being banned.
