Fahrenheit 451 is too often overlooked when people focus on 1984 and Brave New World. Brilliant insight into the popular sources of tyranny. Also overlooked is the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam. Both of these works are so powerful because they begin to address the reality that tyranny depends for its survival on the tacit acceptance - at a minimum - up even to the active participation of the population being "oppressed". If people don't accept it, it ends. The numbers logically make this a truism. So what creates the conditions that we accept this form of society again and again and again...?