You get that this is the exact same thing as the Ayn Rand quote about "A = A" right She said it a lot worse because she's a worse writer but the basic idea is the same There's a lot of overlap between their current fanbases
It's the core thesis of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, like in that book Postman basically names F451 as his favorite dystopia IIRC
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Yeah, that's the take I got from it. In most of the "TV rots your brain" arguments that I encounter, no one needs to enforce it because it's so seductive. In F451, it was seductive, but there were also enforcers.
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I dunno if it's about "needing enforcers" It's about the idea that because this society is stupid and has elevated ignorance to a virtue it is therefore hateful and intolerant The Book People are a tiny minority and always will be but the majority needs to punish them anyway
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