If we do not know that we are sad, we are always happy. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in a future where books are banned and conformity is under pressure. Firefighters burn books and information is censored. Without the ability to question, one cannot question one's own happiness. With censorship, anything that might make you do it is removed, and this effect is heightened. By relying on technology, one is so immersed that it becomes almost impossible to question anything, let alone think for oneself, and you can make them believe that they are happy, while 'in reality, they are not. Because the government of Fahrenheit 451 has removed the ability to question, censors books and ideas, and created a dependence on technology, the people of Fahrenheit 451 have deceived themselves into believing that they are happy and content. Because the government has removed the ability to question, the people in Fahrenheit 451 have fooled themselves into believing they are happy. Guy Montag has been hoarding books for quite a long time, but only recently made this known to his wife. She had friends over, and he took out a book of poems and read it, in front of his wife's stunned friends. “Then he started reading… Mrs. Phelps was crying. The others...watched her cry hard as her face contorted...She sobbed uncontrollably... "Shh, shh," Mildred said. "Are you okay, Clara,...Clara, what's wrong?" “II,” sobbed Mrs. Phelps, “I don’t know, I don’t know, I just don’t know, oh oh…”. The collection of poems made Ms. Phelps really think about her life for the very first time. Government censorship prevented people from being exposed to material that would make them wonder. For the first time, she thought about her... middle of the diary... every evening. the waves came and carried her away in their great tides of sound, making her float, wide-eyed, towards the morning. » In Fahrenheit 451, technology is so omnipresent, so omnipresent, that it takes up all of everyone's time. , they never have time to think about anything. All their free attention is absorbed by their addiction and dependence on technology, they never think about their own happiness or that of the people around them. They never stop to question their own happiness. happiness, then they assume they are happy. If we never think about it, then they automatically assume everything is fine. For example, if we don't think of an animal attacking them, then there must not be one, because there is. if there was, then they would think about it. This is an instinctive trait in humans, and the Fahrenheit 451 government uses it to their advantage..