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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The walls came first and the laws came after The idea is that TV becomes so ubiquitous and powerful and schlocky and seductive the culture turns extremely conformist and cruel
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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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Burning down the whole house instead of just taking the books to a landfill or something is exciting, it's entertainment, everyone gathers around to watch and get off on it
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