That the world depicted in futuristic dystopian novels alarmingly resembles our own is almost a given in the genre. What makes Farenheit 451 so striking is the manner in which this world has come about - when considering the apathy, thoughtlessness, ignorance and decadence of the wealthy, well-fed populace, the notion of burning books seems both logical and feasible.
Bradbury acknowledges that such a nightmarish society couldn't come about just because of the tyrannical rule of a few people - such things could not happen at all without the complicity of the people, and the guilty ones are those who did nothing to stop it.
His writing about being bombarded with information and sensation without having time to think about it makes the work more prophetic than those of Huxley and Orwell, and more relevant today than when it was written.
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