8. Captain Beatty says "But the public, knowing what it wanted ... It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and
minority pressure carried the trick..." (58). Is it possible that a society could find itself in this position, in a
world like Bradbury describes, from trying to avoid what is unpleasant and hard to think about? What parallels
do you see in our world today (think school, community, state, nation, world, etc.)?