The thick black smoke of the majority chocks and blindness people's imagination and self thought. In a future dystopian world where people are clueless about their surroundings; a society that burns things and forces people to think, feel, and find meaning alike. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury displace the idea that a society that is run off of technology will create a culture with no inspiration or originality; establishing a nation that doesn't spread self thought, opinion, or feeling.
Technology will leave people barren of not only creative thought, but also of communication and the sharing of thought. Here Clarisse is talking to Montag about how technology makes things move very fast: “‘I sometimes think drivers don't know