In the book Fahrenheit 451, Beatty (a fireman that works with Montag) is a very logical person. He thinks before he speaks, and gives a good rebuttal on any subject. His views of their world are strikingly similar to that of the world we live in today. His ideals and thoughts strongly resemble that of which we live in today. He thinks like a person that might have lived in our time and then been somehow sent back in time to the 1950's. .
In the book, he gives a description of his environment, the government, and the society in that time. The odd part of his description is that it is strikingly familiar to that of today. The resemblance between his society and ours is scary at first. When he describes something, it is like he is looking at our society. All of his descriptions are from his point of view. Therefore, they will show his opinion on the topic that they are describing. .
In a discussion between Beatty and Montag, Beatty describes the totalitarian society in which they both live. Many of the things he describes of their society have a strong similitude to our own society today. The society he describes and the society we live in are alike in that we did grow in size at varying rates, but it eventually became where we could say we doubled or tripled in size. We have as well increased the number of shortened or "condensed" versions of books available today.
Today, if you want to find out what happens in a play or movie, all you have to do is open a book to get a shortened, five-line description of what happens in the movie or play. You could even get on the Internet, go to a website, search for, and find a small description that you could print out. Our world, like theirs, is even getting more lax over time. In the Dark Ages, if you robbed someone, you were put in shackles in the town center for weeks, maybe months at a time. .
Now, for the same crime you might get thrown in a jail for a number of months (depending on what you stole).