I feel like F451 hits on that middle ground between Brave New World and 1984 - we won't be kept in immiseration nor drugged into a haze
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It hit a theme of the cyberpunk dystopias that followed it -- we'll be BUSY. We'll be TIRED. The problem w the future is just too much shit
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Before it became a trope of 1980s cyberpunk Bradbury hit that theme of dystopia just through inescapable goddamn commercials
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Montag trying to read "Consider the lilies" but the Denham's Dentifrice jingle is in his head is so on-the-nose but so good
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Bradbury's after the fact reveal that Fire Chief Beatty is an embittered classicist who's fully embraced the nihilism of modernity is great
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It's the most newly relevant element of the story. There's a dozen Fire Chief Beattys working in New Media rn
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There's something very dark and very Internet era about Beatty having a secret sealed library in his home
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It's all legal bc he owns them but never reads them. He has no need to -- "I've read them all, I know what they say, they've got no answers"
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We live in an age where it's easier then ever both to be incredibly erudite and incredibly ignorant and they contribute to each other
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There's this kind of smothering feeling now that everything's been read and every take has been had and every thought already judged
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Every time you're about to read something you can with a click find a bunch of people smarter than you who've already decided what it means
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Back in high school, HS me was outraged to that the previous year's star English Lit students were writing their essays from Cliff notes
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Lovely erudite sounding verbiage that the teacher loved reading aloud to us, and they hadn't even cracked the book. Naive HS me was outraged
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