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
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Replying to @arthur_affect
How is that even possible? Oh wait, no one has ever actually read an Ayn Rand novel. I tried once. It hurt.
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I genuinely think that when a socialist like Orwell writes a book that is as wildly popular with Republicans as 1984 is, it means that, as skilled a writer and a thinker as he may be, he done fucked up It's his mistake and his lefty fans need to own that
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Yeah he couldn't control what people did with his work or how the political landscape evolved after his death but holy shit If I were him and I came back to life and saw who was stanning my book I'd immediately die again
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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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He was asked, he gave his answer. You’d think it was about censorship, but I guess he just thought they’d have to ban books to force people to watch tv.
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You're being somewhat unfair It is very clearly stated in the book itself that by the time the "parlor walls" etc became common tech, the anti-book laws were "barely necessary anymore"
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The Firemen were instituted as a kind of victory lap, because the holdouts offend them, their existence discomforts people and pisses them off, not because they're any real threat The Book People in the ending straight up tell Montag they're no threat
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You clearly remember it better than I do, it’s been twenty years or so. So the anti-book laws predates the walls then? That’s interesting. I haven’t remembered that part at all.
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