Like what the fuck is 451 even about really? I don't know. I'm not even sure Bradbury knows. Supposedly it's about "book-burning" but like Bradbury has next to no actual literacy in groups whose voices typically get targeted by book-burning. He doesn't care about Helen Keller.
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It’s about how progressive people caring ablut bias will lead to fascism & no one will ever convince me otherwise
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Ah, a screed against woke culture before that had a word
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This is an opinion Bradbury had and that he put into the afterword of the school edition of F451 but it's not an opinion I really see in the book itself It really is mostly just the "TV rotting brains" argument, made at greater length age sophistication by Neil Postman
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I mean the yelling about "woke culture" is connected The argument is that TV (or mass media in general) has made people stupid, prone to kneejerk shallow reactions to everything, and they therefore become disturbed by anything too deep or complex for them to understand
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I mean, I don't think that's entirely wrong But when cancel culture crusaders start going "You're all just dumb kids trying to cancel anything that makes you uncomfortable without even trying to think about what it means" it's verypic.twitter.com/f79fwQcUja
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I will go to bat for F451 being, at least, a little deeper than people remember it as Like the big twist is that the Fire Chief is one of the Book People turned, mass culture didn't successfully defeat high culture, high culture *destroyed itself* and mass culture filled the gap
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Faber says this directly in his final speech, I think, and then Bradbury put the reveal of Montag's personal library in the stage adaptation, which he quotes in the afterword of the school edition "Once you must have loved books very much"
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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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Anyway Beatty, in rants by people seeking to apply F451 to "woke culture", can easily be made to stand in for the "postmodernist" academic seeking to destroy all meaning because they've given up on all beauty etc But that's not the only reading
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Like how does someone like Beatty not remind you of James Lindsay himself ("I've read your Foucault and your Derrida and your Adorno and your Marcuse and it's GARBAGE, BURN IT ALL")
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