The fact that Bradbury gets shoehorned into curricula and Le Guin really doesn't is such a goddamn crime. I mean THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS is more thought-provoking in three thousand words than 1984 is in a hundred thousandhttps://twitter.com/perdricof/status/1292238943631613953 …
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I guess one of the redeeming features of F451 in my view is the hilarious "twist" that this dystopian USA has been locked in escalating conflict with the rest of the world for a while now and none of the characters notice or care Then suddenly the city gets nuked
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"the united states has fought and won thee nuclear wars" is a setting detail so ominous and horrifying i lifted it for a setting that i never actually did anything with
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as in, sure the states "won" the wars, but also california and also half the rest of the world is a radioactive desert now and things are basically fucked forever the apocalypse came and went and we're still sorta staggering on
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there are refugees from a dozen wars everywhere, occasionally radioactive dust storms blow in, the state monopoly on violence is on the edge of breaking down, florida is underwater but things sorta just keep on going, as if this is--ordinary. people can get used to a lot.
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The Onion Future News was one of my favorite treatments of this concepthttps://youtu.be/iKC21wDarBo
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god the language is so good
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"I love you" "I love you too"
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le guin teaches that the greatness of sff is its ability to show us ourselves in a new light to see--for instance--the arbitrariness, the strangeness of the various rote phrases and catechisms that make up the theater of broadcast news
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Yeah the idea is the language has evolved so that both intimate language like "I love you" and coarse language like "total fucking" have now just become bland broadcaster phrases
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"Frustrage" is an amazing idea for a word and I'm gonna steal it
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the way it's all just slipped in there, like her closing a segment by deadpanning "this news is quenched" i can't get over it
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