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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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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In Bradbury's day the public library was an infinite hall of portals to imaginary worlds and challenging ideas, that no adult in your life could ever fully comprehend or stop you from accessing
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Arguably the opposite of the trajectory of the Internet, in both cases because of the change either to or from the content being in a few consolidated hands
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