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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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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So I mean I get it Faber's speech in F451 about the only real difference that matters between books and screens -- that with books *the reader has the control* -- made way more sense back in his day, or, hell, even my day, compared to the Kids These Days
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Yeah as with the case of Idiocracy I actually think this is a pretty convincing argument
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What's the deal with Idiocracy?
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