Mead must be sent away to be ‘cured’ of his unorthodox thinking so he can fall in line with the rest of the population. When he reveals himself to be a writer (again, aligning himself with the creative, imaginative, and independently minded), we also learn that he hasn’t sold anything for years because nobody buys books or magazines any more. Of course, even before he is arrested, it is clear that everyone else in the city has willingly embraced their chains. His only ‘crime’ is in refusing to plug himself into the electronic brain-drainer that has done for his fellow citizens. Leonard Mead is a danger not because he might commit a crime while he is out on one of his evening walks, but because he is a reminder of the free-thinking (and free-moving) spirit which others have lost: a spirit he might reawaken in them if others see him outside.
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