In F451, the widespread use of TV parlors and seashell radios give the government two great ways of controlling their citizens. The spread of TV parlors, and more importantly, the profuse amount of useless information it entrances and entraps the viewer with, gives the government easy-to-control people due to their inability to critically think. According to Faber, TV parlors are an “environment as real as the world”(84). What he means by this, is that TV parlors become reality for those that watch it, and with no one paying attention and critically thinking about the world around them, the government is able to get away with committing all sorts of immoral acts. Additionally, seashell radios give the government an amazing device to spread propaganda. In the story, the radios are heard saying “We have mobilized a million men. Quick victory is our if the war comes…”(92). This is actually propaganda rather than fact since in reality according to faber, ten million men were mobilized(92) and also at the end of the story, the city is completely obliterated by bombs. The seashell radios spread propaganda that hides reality so well and is believed so easily, that the government is able to make their citizens believe anything the want them
In F451, the widespread use of TV parlors and seashell radios give the government two great ways of controlling their citizens. The spread of TV parlors, and more importantly, the profuse amount of useless information it entrances and entraps the viewer with, gives the government easy-to-control people due to their inability to critically think. According to Faber, TV parlors are an “environment as real as the world”(84). What he means by this, is that TV parlors become reality for those that watch it, and with no one paying attention and critically thinking about the world around them, the government is able to get away with committing all sorts of immoral acts. Additionally, seashell radios give the government an amazing device to spread propaganda. In the story, the radios are heard saying “We have mobilized a million men. Quick victory is our if the war comes…”(92). This is actually propaganda rather than fact since in reality according to faber, ten million men were mobilized(92) and also at the end of the story, the city is completely obliterated by bombs. The seashell radios spread propaganda that hides reality so well and is believed so easily, that the government is able to make their citizens believe anything the want them