Exactly. A feature people seem to miss about 451 is the government is an authoritarian regime, and the media is used to pacify controversial thought. In that se

Exactly. A feature people seem to miss about 451 is the government is an authoritarian regime, and the media is used to pacify controversial thought. In that sense it's not much different from how media is used in 1984, with trash culture for proles and overt propaganda. 451 is just more subtle about the methods of oppression.