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In Fahrenheit 451, books are destroyed to keep people distracted, shallow, and easy to manage, which is not far from today’s social media obsession where endless scrolling replaces actual thinking. What Bradbury imagined as a forbidden act has become a voluntary one, since reading now competes with algorithms engineered to reward outrage, conformity, and brain rot. The sad reality is that modern governments do not need to ban books; instead: a population glued to feeds has already done the work for them.