A summary...
She was driving drunk 25+ mph over the limit on the wrong side of the road. She killed a guy and she went to the hospital. While she was there - she tried to get an IV to dilute her blood alcohol concentration with an IV.
She got 15 years for pleading guilty to vehicular homicide, but will not serve any of the time after her sentence was suspended.
Liberals babble about 1984, but Fahrenheit 451 was a bit closer to our present reality when it came to predicting the future.
Look at how pissed people get when "scolds" show up and tell them that something they're consuming is bad and hurts people, actually.
Brave New World in the mix too. Emphasis on the feelies to placate the masses
The born-to-type caste system being seen as a good thing fits right with
ideology too.
Yeah, and while the tv walls aren't really a thing, we do love our screen time.
Wasn't the whole vibe like a freeze peach kind of thing?
The "Noble Savage" character was a bunch of old reactionary
but the worldbuilding still accidentally holds up.
That's how it's typically interpreted because that's what makes the most sense, but from Ray Bradbury himself he was mad everyone was watching TV instead of reading