Quite simply, the danger of books in Fahrenheit 451 is that they lead to knowledge. Knowledge leads to ideas. Ideas lead to thinking and thinking leads to individual thinking. In a society where everyone is expected to do only as they are intended to do, individual thinking would be a very dangerous thing. Without books, it would be much easier to control the thoughts people have and the knowledge that they possess. This sort of backwards brainwashing stops the thinking before it is even allowed to begin.
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