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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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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Also like. The book is probably one of the most misogynist things I ever had to read. Women are materialistic wretches without any interiorities beyond what they want to watch on television and men are sensible bookish people trying to elevate the conversation. okay.
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It's not even like the book has really had any impact. Like back when Jack Thompson was the end-all, be-all censorship boogeyman of the gamer community, nobody self-importantly quoted Bradbury because the tone of that book is actually, Ray Bradbury fucking hates your vidya games.
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Nobody is ever actually going to burn Ray Bradbury's books because they're just incompetently written and totally irrelevant, I don't really know what he was scared of, the guy didn't have a transgressive bone in his body
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Yeah one of the last ever interviews he gave mentions how proud and excited he was to vote for George Bush in 2000 and how "we needed to be rid of Clinton"
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