CULTURAL ESSAY
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Ray Bradbury’s quote which states that people do not have necessarily have to burn or even to destroy books so as to kill the culture but they simply have to stop reading these books. This phrase is absolutely true since if the society has the least clue and information on the cultural stuff; it is left with no power that will defend the culture when it starts to fall apart.
Adolf Hitler gave a command that all documentaries and books that had Nazi ideologies were to be burned downed so as to prevent the spreading of the message in them. This could be clearly termed to be ignorance since it were better of if they would just negate the information that the books passed rather than burning them down. Negating the information by declaring them to be false would have the best solution than resolving to the burning of books since it is also a very drastic action that will make people instead of shunning away from the reading of the book, it will attract their attention and make them further more curious and anxious to know what the contents of the books are all about.
If people in the society lack knowledge about things that are going on in the society, many dealings and deeds can take place without people having any clue of what has taken place. Same is with the books, if they are not read they are generally useless and are have no meaning since the information that they are expected to deliver to the masses is not been read by anyone. But the drastic decisions to loot or even destroy a specific book for that matter will actually raise the numbers of those who read due to the curiosity and animosity that is created as the books are destroyed (Staley, 2011).
Never the less, the subject has turned out to be very concerning since in the present day society, very few people enjoy or like reading. Especially among the young generation whom rarely read even when in school they despise reading, where else do we expect to find them reading some stuff if where they are expected to read (in school), they do not. The lack of reading some books could lead to the eradication and fading away or rather lead to the erasing of an entire culture. And also the young nation would most probably go for a science fiction book or novel than read a large boring history stuff book.
However, Ray Bradbury sort of condemns those who sort of resolve to the destruction of books. He mocks them since, if these books are destroyed people will not be able to pass on their knowledge to others and this may end up eradicating the culture of societies and make them to be like tales that are told in the coming future where parents would tell their children ‘long long time ago, it is believed to have been native Americans who believed in…’ if books are destroyed it will definitely the transfer of information from one generation to another.

Reference
Staley, C. C. (2011). Focus on college success. Boston, MA: Wadsworth.