If one does not know he is sad, he is always happy. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in a future where books are banned and conformity is under pressure. Firefighters burn books and information is censored. Without the ability to question, you cannot question your happiness. With censorship, everything that can provoke you is removed and this effect is increased. By relying on technology, you are so immersed that it becomes almost impossible to question anything, let alone think for yourself, and you can make yourself believe you are happy, when in reality you are not. Because in Fahrenheit 451 the government has removed the ability to ask questions, censors books and ideas, and creates an addiction to technology, the people in Fahrenheit 451 have fooled themselves into thinking they are happily ever after. Since the government removed the ability to ask questions, the people in Fahrenheit 451 have fooled themselves into believing they are happy. Guy Montag had been hiding books for a long time, but only recently let his wife know about it. He had friends over, and he took out a book of poems and read it, in front of his wife's stunned friends. “Then he began to read…Mrs. Phelps was crying. The others...watched her cry becoming very loud as her face distorted...she sobbed uncontrollably... "Sh, sh," Mildred said. “Are you okay, Clara,…Clara, what's wrong?” "II," sobbed Mrs. Phelps, "I don't know, I don't know, I just don't know, oh oh..." The book of poems made Mrs. Phelps really reflect on her life for the first time ever government censorship prevented people from being exposed to material that would make them doubt. For the first time, he thought of her…in the middle of the paper…that very night the waves came and carried her away in their great sounding tides, making her float, wide-eyed, into the morning.” In Fahrenheit 451, technology is so pervasive, so omnipresent, that it takes up all of everyone's time, they never have time to think about anything, all their free attention is sucked up by their dependence and dependence on technology, so they never think to their own happiness or that of the people around them happiness, so they assume they are happy. If one never thinks about it, then they automatically assume it's ok. For example, if you don't think about an animal attacking them, then there must not be one, because if there was, then they would have thought about it. This is an instinctive trait of human beings and the Fahrenheit 451 government is using it to their advantage.