In the novel, Beatty said this quote to Montag. In my opinion, people in that society are really living, they all looks like very happy, but all of this is meaningless. People want to become happy, so captain Beatty let them work, let the firemen to burn the books, let them have fun, all of this is the meaning of living. People need to think, also need creativity. The society in the novel, it looks like very good, looks like a utopia world, the citizens live in the society are all very happy, but actually this is because people do not have things to think about. Happiness is the part of lives, people also need pain. For our present day society, people always laughing about a thing that on the social media, but after a while, some people even