George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on Amazon
While I love 1984, I think Fahrenheit 451 has become more true than Orwell&#x27;s novel. People have willingly given into an information bonanza that is the internet, with headphones always in (seashells). We don&#x27;t need the TV walls, as our cellphone has taken that role, altogether with the hyperactive delivery of such content.<p>A collectivist state has not become the dominating power, but wealthy individuals and corporations have, although with similar results--while that part wasn&#x27;t really part of Montag&#x27;s universe, the part that is is that we have given up to the &quot;firemen&quot; on our own freewill, because it fits our narrative or it&#x27;s our safe space.<p>Nonetheless, I am very optimistic. I think for all the faults that the internet and mobiles and social networks and globalization has wrought us, the world today still is a better world it was say 20 or 30 years ago. When ontop of oscillations, they are never obvious from the vantage point of a single wiggle. I still feel that despite many of the shortcomings of the previous few decades and years and months, we can still arrive on net at a better place than we were yesterday.