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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I have frequently defended people's bad takes like this on autobiographical grounds saying it's often about the feeling more than any defensible ideology And Bradbury was a kid for whom public libraries were his refuge and escape through his whole crappy childhood
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By contrast, TV wasn't really a thing until he was an adult (he was born in 1920), and the TV they had back then was mostly *terrible*, and it stayed terrible for a long time (Newton Minow's "vast wasteland" speech was in 1961, when Bradbury was 41)
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