List three things Beatty talks about in his speech to Montag that are true about our world.

Much of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 should make a modern reader feel uneasy. The prevalence of so many of the mentalities and technologies that appear in the novel are seen just as frequently today. One of the places in the novel where this is especially poignant is in Beatty's speech to Montag. In this speech, Beatty is explaining how firemen and culture in general came to be as it is in the book.
One thing that Beatty speaks to is the shortening of the attention span for the population at large. He states:

Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume.

Certainly, the pacing of today's society, especially with the immediate availability of most technology, speaks to the lack of long attention spans and the need to shorten everything. Then, he discusses the effects that a fast-movie culture has on transportation. Beatty says the following:

Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. The gasoline refugee. Towns turn into motels, people in nomadic surges from place to place.

Travel, too, is something that has grown monumentally since the 1950s when Bradbury wrote this novel. Another thing that Beatty points out about culture is that as population grows, the possibility for offense does, as well.

You must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred. Ask yourself, What do we want in this country, above all? People want to be happy, isn’t that right?

Beatty's appeal to "keep everyone happy" is a common call to political correctness. These three examples are just a few from this fascinating novel that so well depicts a world in which the populace loses sight of the importance of gaining true knowledge through reading.

In part one, Captain Beatty visits Montag's home and discusses the history of the firefighter regime and why the citizens disregard literature. Beatty makes the keen observation that once technology advanced, books became less popular as citizens chose to entertain themselves by listening to radios and watching televisions. This aspect of Bradbury's dystopian society mirrors our modern American society, in which citizens read fewer novels and watch more television shows. Beatty also mentions that entertainment is fragmented into shorter clips, which corresponds with the quick, entertaining videos people watch on Youtube, Snapchat, Vine, and Instagram that last less than a minute. Beatty also elaborates on the education system and how the arts are completely ignored in schools. Diminished variety in coursework is becoming a trend in education due to increased legislation and school budget cuts. Beatty also mentions that citizens stopped reading because they were tired of being criticized by authors. In today's modern society, political correctness is emphasized, and in America's multicultural society, it is relatively easy to offend someone.