Fahrenheit 451

After reading Fahrenheit 451 for the third time, 2nd for school, I think I'm finally starting to get what Bradbury is saying. I think he's trying to convey that our society need to question what our government does, not be perfect little sheep spending all day with the 'family' or out driving 150 miles per hour and hitting small animals for fun. It's insane, the dystopian society of Bradbury's fictional future. All day people sit in their living rooms, laughing, crying and being angry with the 'family'. My perception of what the 'family' is are a bunch of random programs but mainly sitcoms. Bradbury tells about clowns hacking off each others limbs, or of rockets exploding into rainbows of colors; it doesn't make any sense. If the people of Fahrenheit, the majority at least, had half a mind they would stand up, turn off the 'family' and read a book. Even though reading books is illegal, if everyone had books and read them, there would be nothing that the government could do. Burn them? Sure, but you would have to burn millions of people's of homes, billions perhaps (I'm not sure of the population of that day). What then; everyone would be dead and America would collapse; if it hadn't already from the nuclear war.
I think that if anyone would rebel and think for themselves it would be Clarisse McClellan. Her aunt and uncle sit in rocking chairs and talk daily into the night. She was taught to think freely, to question, to rebel if you wish. I believe that Clarisse was killed because of that. She was walking one night and BAM! she gets hit by some dumb teenagers going "Hur Hur, fun!" It's barbaric.
Lastly, when war breaks out, society just stares as the world goes up in flames. All of it's material gains vanish at the push of a button. Show's them right.