I read a version of it in like 2002 and in the afterward he was talking about how moulin rouge was proof Fahrenheit 451 was already happening or some shit because the shot lengths are short and there's a lot of cuts lol. Bruh what the fuck are you talking about.
Like the book is actually kinda chilling, but then he's like actually now that i'm a boomer, it's about how mass media bad
In a 1956 radio interview,[6] Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature.
In the coda, Bradbury is angry about what he describes as censorship, but there are a lot of different complaints all jostled together under that one big umbrella. There’s anger at the editors of Ballantine Books, who removed the words “damn” and “hell” from their edition of Fahrenheit 451. There’s anger at anthology editors who bowdlerized great authors when putting together a compilation of the classics for school readers. But most of his anger is aimed at the threat he believes to be posed by minorities.
He is angry at a “solemn young Vassar lady” who asked whether he might write more female characters. He is angry at other readers who disapprove of how he wrote “the blacks” in one of his stories. He is angry at “the Irish,” “the Chicano intellectuals,” at “every minority” that has some perspective on his stories at variance with his. In his own words, every last one of them “feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse…. Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever.”
In the coda, most of Bradbury’s anger is aimed at the threat he believes to be posed by minorities.
jesus fuck, i definitely didn't pick up on that when i was reading that however long ago
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"Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico…. All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean.”
why the fuck are we giving this to children to read
lmao this is very close to what actually inspired bradbury's fahrenheit 451
lol what happened?
I read a version of it in like 2002 and in the afterward he was talking about how moulin rouge was proof Fahrenheit 451 was already happening or some shit because the shot lengths are short and there's a lot of cuts lol. Bruh what the fuck are you talking about.
Like the book is actually kinda chilling, but then he's like actually now that i'm a boomer, it's about how mass media bad
i think you should read the coda again
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jesus fuck, i definitely didn't pick up on that when i was reading that however long ago
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why the fuck are we giving this to children to read
tbh I kind of agree with him on that
the chad Chinese homogenizer vs the virgin European highland west luxembourgish moldovakian meme ethnicity
im glad bradbury dead
"I've had just about enough of your Vassar-bashing!"