It's funny how I hate Ray Bradbury a whole lot more than I hate George Orwell and FAHRENHEIT 451 is probably one one of the most poorly-written books I've ever had to read but as a whole, it's been a lot less harmful to political discourse than 1984, a book I actually enjoyed
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But it was always obvious from reading the book itself Beatty is one of those PhDs in English lit who played the crab-bucket game of seeking prestige and influence and status by proving how smart and insightful he was until he was like "Burn it all down"
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A lit match, at least, actually changes the world Faber's argument that you can't actually trust in books to save the world because the world that was *had* all the books and they didn't do a goddamn thing to save it from becoming this world
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