What is Crippling Us?

In both the article and the book they make some strong points. In Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenhiet 451 and John Taylor Gatto's article on educaton they share some common points. They both know how boring their own society is.
An example from Bradbury's book is "people don't talk about anything"(31) which is mainly true. In the society in the book, no one reads and everyone just watches tv. No one really knows their own neighbors and you can get arrested for walking around. Drawn from this conclusion would be that in the society in the book everyone is affraid, affraid of being normal. Everyone is the same and that gets super boring after a while. "The lawn empty, the trees empty, the street empty"(32) In the society in the book once something interesting goes on and then goes away they feel sadness. Life shouldn't be about one thing making you happy but how you live life should.
Another example would be from Gatto's article when he said "Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there." This relates to almost everyone's life. I know that not every single teacher in Guilderland is always hyped up. Whether it'd be biology notes dragging on for and hour and global lecture for the whole 80 minutes no teenager is going to think thats "fun." Teachers should be held responsible for the class being boring, they wanted to teach, their the ones wanting to be around kids at 7:30 in the morning. "I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt" so with that being said, everyone in there own way is a genius of something whether its basketball, writing or cutting wood were all good at something. I think overall this article its just saying as a community we've let ourselves go and we need to get back on the right path.
These two pieces of writing relate to eachother because in the book the author is perdicting was the future holds and in the article the author is telling us how were living in the present.