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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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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The TV was a box with a constant stream of garbage you had no control over from the same few dickhead corporations who were transparently using it to shovel advertising in your face as cheaply and crassly as possible (remember the Ovaltine thing from A Christmas Story)
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My own Fahrenheit 451 would have been about Duck Dynasty and Nineteen Kids And Counting
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Lol now I'm thinking about how Faber has a tiny handheld screen that says is the only way he'll watch the news or whatever, as opposed to the "parlor walls" "Something I can cover with my hand or shove in a drawer if I choose, that has no power over me"
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