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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Like, one of the shows they have is a Running Man style thing, which Montag ends up on in the climax The reason they have the Mechanical Hound is it's really fucking fun to watch it hunt somebody down, they find a reason to do it every month or so to keep people interested
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That's kind of the subtext running through the whole thing Burning the books isn't *necessary* in any kind of direct utilitarian way, it's spectacle, like everything else they do is They're a society of bullies punching down on nerds
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