What are your thoughts about the society the book takes place in? Do you agree with its non-thinking and intellectual policy?

The society this book takes place in is a dystopian society. In this novel, the society forbids the reading of books considering them to be means of starting wars and conflicts. This is based on the logic that the thoughts and opinions on different scholars, philosophers, authors and other educated people differ from one another. They won't have the same perspective of things and so will do anything to prove their point, whether it be for fame and glory or just so because they are certain of themselves and they think the world deserves to know their views which is 'absolutely true'. Thus war and unrest spreads from place to place around the world, directly and indirectly because of books as they also influence politicians. The society in this novel has the proper mindset of the problem in hand but not the solution. People like Captain Beatty believes all books are bad and all of them function similarly, so banishing them is the key. Whether they do it intentinally for selfish purposes of complete domination or unintentionally for the right cause is never specified so either can be theorized. If the latter, what the government or the ruling body dont know is that they are banning useful knowledge as well as important perspectives with it, that can help improve human mentalities as well as even provide solutions to this problem. To further prove the claims, the aftermath of all this is clearly seen in the novel. People are living robots with absolutely no feelings or curiousity or any variety of free thinking. Everything became completely mainstream to the point that everyday is like the last. Captain Beattys idea of 'peace' is nothing but the bleaching of the world from all the colourful perspectives that could have made the world a vivid utopia (to some extent, of course).