Fahrenheit 451 Pg 40-68

First off, I am going to start off by saying that this book is great. It may be confusing, but it is definitely worth reading. Ignorant and happy or being aware, educated and disturbed. From Captain Beatty perspective, it seems that he would side with ignorant and happy. The reason why I say that is because on page 61 on the 8th line, Captain Beatty said “Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘fact’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information.” By saying that he means fill people with useless information so they think that they are smart. The people get excited about knowing more of nothing than other people. So they are completely filled with nothing, but by being filled with information that means nothing they become happy. The reason why they feel happy is because they feel that they are thinking. “Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change.” The people feel that they are coursing with information; they feel that they are geniuses waiting to be discovered. Captain Beatty probably thinks that the people are better off not knowing what is really going on in the world. He knows that people are better off not knowing the truth. People are better off being happy and not knowing, he knows that everything is better off that people don’t know what really is going on it the world. If I am wrong somebody please tell me so I don’t sound like an idiot.