Memorable Passage

This passage was interesting to me:

"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, thie play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, The less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said, But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex magazines, of course, There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals."

This was when Beatty was talking to Montag, about how evil writers and books were. It's interesting how evil dictatorship can be, ignoring the minorities. This reminds me of North Korea, where foreign medias are banned. I heard that people who are caught with foreign media are sent to jail.... (Correct me if I'm wrong!) I don't think books make you unhappy. Sure, textsbooks can make the students stressed out. But, having knowledge is important. I believe it can make you happy, through expressing your knowledge to the world. With knowledge, you can discover the horrible, unhappy things in the world like poverty, human trafficking, and etc. People can help each other through the use of knowledge. Like LASA trips, helping and caring others make happiness! Reading unnecessary comic books, inapropriate magazines just bring no point in life. It makes the brain think weirdly. I don't think the world would function properly. People won't think of others that need help out there in the world.