The Relevance of Fahrenheit 451 Today The relevance of Fahrenheit 451 today can be very detailed and prophetic when we look in depth at our American society. Even though we don't live in a communist environment with extreme warfare, we have acquired technologies similar to what Bradbury talked about in Fahrenheit 451 and a stubborn civilization that ignores the little things we should enjoy. Bradbury sees America's future as a dystopia, but we still have problematic issues without the title of disaster, because they are well hidden under our democracy today. Fahrenheit 451 is very similar to our world today, which includes television, the loss of freedom of speech, and the loss of education and the use of books. Patai explains that Bradbury's "living room walls", mentioned in Fahrenheit 451, are very similar to the televisions we have today. We offer TVs in different sizes, getting closer and closer to the size of a wall. Households today have many televisions, especially in bedrooms, living rooms and sometimes even kitchens. Near the end of Fahrenheit 451, Montag is broadcast through the living room walls following the murder of Captain Beatty. The people who broadcast the turn of events made up a story at the end in order to keep their audience calm after losing track of Montag. Televisions offer dramatized and unimaginative reality shows. Television even broadcasts TV series and movies with graphic details about wars and battles. Bradbury was not drawn to television like others because he thought that "their optimism, their willingness to have faith in a future where the self-destruction of civilizations would come to a complete halt, has to do with their belief in the changed relationship between humans and their world,” says Lee (Lee 1). In “As the Constitution Says” by Joseph F. Brown, Brown talks about an NEA experiment that found that Americans are reading less and less and that our comprehension skills are declining dramatically because of it (Brown 4). Bradbury saw little use in the technology created in his day, he avoided airplanes, driving, and e-books. Bradbury didn't even allow his book to be sold and read on e-books until 2011. If you take away the books, you take away the imagination. If we take away imagination, we take away creativity. If you take away creativity, you take away new ideas for technology and world progress. Nowadays, people lose interest in books because they see them as a waste of time and unnecessary effort, and they lose their critical thinking, their understanding of things around them and their knowledge. Brown says Bradbury suggests that a world without books is a world without imagination and the ability to find happiness. People in Fahrenheit 451 are afraid to read books because of the emotions they feel.