Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 combined?

[Darkstar]

I don't really think that we're nearly that bad. I have read Farenheit 451, but not the other one. Flat screen TVs are one thing, but does everyone really do that? Almost literally everyone does in Fareheit 451; the main character is disillusioned with it all. The speed limit on the highway is hundreds of miles per hour (although the autobahn might have that) and billboards were sixty feet long so people could see them. I don't think the government is really trying to censor things that much. Sure, it does sometimes (more where you live? I don't know) but I think they generally try not to, so long as state secrets aren't being leaked. Considering the ending to Fahrenheit 451, I would say that we aren't in that society at all. Discussion of ending below.

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The entire town was razed, and no one saw it coming because they were so oblivious to the world around them. I don't remember the exact scene, but it was the one where they were reading poetry and the protagonaist read/improvised a poem about how people were dying every day in a war with no purpose but the people of the city were just pleasuring themselves with shallow and pointless (and sometimes savage, as with 'the dog') things, blissfully unaware that a nuclear strike was at their doorstep.

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Now, I'm not saying that there are no parallels to that society, but I don't think that ours is on nearly that level of blindness.