Parallels between the world of the book and our world

This book shows parallels between our world and the future, dystopian world of Fahrenheit 451. In the book, the government tries to erase the past by having firemen burn books. They believe that by burning books, there will be less evidence of the past and people won’t know how things used to be. So they burn all the written evidence, and as more and more books are burnt, people will slowly know less and less information of the past, and when the point comes, they the society knows nothing about the past, the government will be able to have stricter control of everyone. Because if people know more about the past, and the government tries to take stricter control, there will be more chance of an outbreak among the society against the government. Like I said in the previous paragraph, the patriot act can escalate into what may someday be a world similar to the dystopia in the book. Now the government in our world and get our bank records, internet records, tap into our private phone calls, and even randomly search us. All of these are threats of our personal freedom which we are supposed to have in our nation. Our freedom is being slowly taken away, and can one day be gone. This is a parallel to the book, the fact that our personal freedom is being taken away to the point that the world can possible end up as a dystopia.