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It's literally dystopian that you can't say the n word anymore (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 0 points 5 years ago (2 children)

I read somewhere that he was adamant that 451 was about the dangers of TV (lol) and censorship wasn't even what he had in mind. Like, the books were being burned not because gubment bad, but Video Killed the Literary Star.

At one stage, apparently, he was giving a lecture at UCLA, mentioned 451 was about TV being bad, was interrupted by a student who said Bradbury was, in fact, wrong about the book he wrote (in a weird death of the author way) and he stormed out. Source: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27821/did-ray-bradbury-ever-claim-that-fahrenheit-451-was-not-about-censorship

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  • [–] 0 points 5 years ago (1 child)

    Lol this is the most boomer shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 years ago

    He had some thoughts about the internet as well.

    This man is * science fiction* writer that was iffy about the prevalence of radio, despised the advance of television and absolutely against the very idea of the internet. A science fiction writer that absolutely hates every single new innovation in science is a good bit.

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