Reminds me that Fahrenheit 451 was written not about censorship but about how TV is bad.
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Maybe. I got the impression (possibly incorrectly?) that this could have been a case of "author changed his mind" or "author came up with the idea after the fact."
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The "TV is bad" message is not subtle AT ALL in the original book but I don't see it as this completely separate thing from the censorship part
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It would be weird if it wasn't about censorship, though. Most arguements that I see against TV (both in stories and in more formalized arguments) don't involve outlawing books.
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As I read the book, it's about how "mass culture" (TV, movies, pop music, etc) give people instant gratification and destroy their capacity for nuanced, critical thought
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Which then leads to a culture incapable of tolerating anything that makes them uncomfortable or they don't understand It's a more complex take than the usual "anti-censorship" take but not an unusual one
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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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Shoving the nerd into a locker for thinking he's better than you, that kind of thing
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This exists in the backstory of Brave New World, too Mustapha Mond's opening lecture about how plenty of people in the Old World resisted but they were outnumbered and had to be forcibly destroyed
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"1,000 antiquarians gunned down on the steps of the British Museum 20,000 Simple Lifers asphyxiated by gas"
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