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change my name posted:Not blurred out because it's from the FB trending topics sidebar, lol gently caress off dude. Wasn't Fahrenheit 451 about technology replacing books, rather than censorship? It's been a while since I read it, admittedly.
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Serperoth posted:Wasn't Fahrenheit 451 about technology replacing books, rather than censorship? It's been a while since I read it, admittedly. Yeah, the fire chief talks about it near the end, but everyone reads the censorship message anyway. Apparently Ray Bradbury couldn't even convince a class of kids he was meeting with in person.
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During a radio interview in 1956,[74][75] Bradbury said: I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. Too many people were afraid of their shadows; there was a threat of book burning. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time. And of course, things have changed a lot in four years. Things are going back in a very healthy direction. But at the time I wanted to do some sort of story where I could comment on what would happen to a country if we let ourselves go too far in this direction, where then all thinking stops, and the dragon swallows his tail, and we sort of vanish into a limbo and we destroy ourselves by this sort of action. Overweight girls buy new clothes instead of trying to actually lose weight. Honestly this sounds like the solution of a drug addict.
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change my name posted:Not blurred out because it's from the FB trending topics sidebar, lol gently caress off dude. marmoset antoinette (marie) parapet silhouette it's not unexpected that this person wouldn't remember "suffragette" either
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quote:In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451, I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction. 
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Serperoth posted:Wasn't Fahrenheit 451 about 
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Yes, mr Bradbury, she should have been involved in that most social activity of all, reading books. Which according to don Quixote will rot your brain so don't do that either
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The story is about apathy and people losing their sense of curiosity, not censorship. It wasn't that the government took away the books, but that people gave up the desire to be intellectually stimulated and challenged, and wanted the books taken away.
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i haven't read it in a while but wasnt the whole title derived from the fact that books were illegal and if you reported a bookhaver a squad of book-burners would be dispatched? seems like he sort of bungled his intended message with that flourish, tho admittedly "farenheit 67, the temperature at which books are voluntarilly abandoned and forgotten in a musty basement in favor of less cerebral diversions" isnt as catchy
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I haven't read the book in ages, but I did see the film a few weeks ago, so I might be going off that.
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In the book it's kinda both, there are the firemen that came around and burned the Book Havers, but it's also said in the middle section of the book that the people actually hate books that aren't comics or ultra porn. The book also ends with a new atomic war and Book Havers being the ones who get to survive and rebuild civilization.
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Elliotw2 posted:In the book it's kinda both, there are the firemen that came around and burned the Book Havers, but it's also said in the middle section of the book that the people actually hate books that aren't comics or ultra porn. Truth.
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Man if oglaf was around it would have made a killing.
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Elliotw2 posted:but it's also said in the middle section of the book that the people actually hate books that aren't comics or ultra porn. So basically reality right now.
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Ularg posted:So basically reality right now. But we don't think that Bradbury is against Kindles per se? Or do we?
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We are about to elect a president that hasn't read a book in decades.
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I dunno, I kinda hope the IoT poo poo dies down so tech writers can stop quoting The Veldt
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Mu Zeta posted:We are about to elect a president that hasn't read a book in decades. But he'll likely be enthusiastic about burning a few.
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This seems like an appropriate thing to post on your wife's timeline. He does this a lot.
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will somebody PLEASE sleep with me
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Simsmagic posted:will somebody PLEASE sleep with me Sure, I've got five minutes.
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Tiggum posted:Sure, I've got five minutes. You don't have to give him seconds.
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How can Imgur make everything about SJWs? Easy. quote:With a haircut like that, I'm pretty sure their gender studies degree will get them a job immediately. quote:with a haircut like that, I'd avoid trying to "assume the gender" or you're liable to be called cis-scum. loving SJWs
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At least they care enough to cut/style their hair in a way they like instead of shoving an unkempt mess under a fedora
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we just gotta keep loving each other until everyone has the same haircut
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VioletCorsica posted:But we don't think that Bradbury is against Kindles per se? Or do we? quote:He resisted the conversion of his work into e-books, saying in 2010 "We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now".
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But I have too many BOOKS, Ray Bradbury. I owned 20 times my own weight in books before I got a Kindle.
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It takes little to make Bradbury stew just internets and cellphones too
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I imagine him saying this as nearly incoherent muttering, shaking his head and walking aimlessly across a dilapidated shack to his writing desk.
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Millions of book printers and binders are fine though
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VioletCorsica posted:But I have too many BOOKS, Ray Bradbury. I owned 20 times my own weight in books before I got a Kindle. gently caress books, man. When I moved I had so many drat books I just couldn't do it and got rid of all but my favorites because I couldn't even lift the suitcases containing them anymore. Now all my favorite books are in a wooden box acting as a stand for my computer, because I have them all in digital or audio format instead.
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I was pretty anti-kindle until I got one. Having my entire library (and a portable bookstore) on the go is amazing.
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Bradbury is one of those authors whose name makes me cringe because their works are constantly referenced by half-bright shitheads.
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Martin Prince dismissing Bradbury is like my favorite Simpsons moment
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Henchman of Santa posted:Martin Prince dismissing Bradbury is like my favorite Simpsons moment Don't suppose you have a video of any sort?
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Josef bugman posted:Don't suppose you have a video of any sort? http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/AdrianFohr/clips/free-riding-in-class-elections/view
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John Big Booty posted:Bradbury is one of those authors whose name makes me cringe because their works are constantly referenced by half-bright shitheads. Considering Bradbury's seemingly pathological fear of technology, I'd put him in the "half-bright" category in retrospect.
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Hihohe posted:Oh man.. this butthurt is like sweet candy. Blizz's servers are apparently being DDoS'ed right now, so maybe one of these guys actually went through with something? How lame of them.
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change my name posted:Blizz's servers are apparently being DDoS'ed right now, so maybe one of these guys actually went through with something? How lame of them. Blizzard gets DDoS'ed all the time, I doubt anyone posting on that forum have the capability or connections to do that.
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