comprehended and thought over during hundreds of years, is a memory of generations. It is a historical collection of everything created by a human from the times of a writing appearance. In the society, where the books are forbidden, it is impossible to preserve all of this and it becomes a foundation of a complete social regress.
Ray Bradbury’s idea is the following: if we are not guided by the experience of previous generations, the free and fair art, then the future, described in Fahrenheit 451, will be inevitable. When people have a choice between a book and an entertaining video, more often they choose the second one, an educational level of the population descends and it leads to a mass degradation and incapability to think that causes stagnation in every sphere of human activity.
