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Why is the government so oppressive in this story with their population? How do they achieve the brainwashing treatment?I think that the government was so oppressive about their policy on books because they knew books can give ideas to people. Also, books were able to make people think more carefully about what’s the truth from the lies. I think that the government in Fahrenheit 451 was so oppressive because they didn’t want people having knowledge which can question their authority. The government’s process of brainwashing resulted in the entire population turning to the “saloons” for their happiness. In addition, the oppression of books from the government was for people to have happiness and making people lose their questioning thoughts on many issues. They achieved this happiness or a brainwashed population first by discouraging many students to go to universities that were always teaching brilliant ideas. Next, they started to cut their funds on the universities and destroyed the ones that didn’t wield to their will or just left them to rot. Also, many writers were burned to death by the government because of the ideas the books gave to the people. Then the universities either went bankrupt or just closed its doors because no students came to the schools. After this all the books were burnt or just thrown away by people because they didn’t want to have confusion of thinking. Furthermore, the entire population had lost much of the knowledge they had before. Finally, everyone didn’t care about books after awhile or some people hid themselves and memorized one book. Therefore, they achieved this brainwashing treatment by a oppressive policy on books.