Every Sci-Fi author is either like a right wing asshole or all out socialist. there's never any inbetween
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"Why don't the homos want me to hurl the same old long debunked bullshit at them? This is literally fahrenheit 1984!"
Bradbury was a chud but I've got a bunch of signed copies of his books. Wonder if they'll be worth something someday
I was right for thinking that book sucked and was dumb :galaxy-brain:
They're literally like "oh the reason we burn all the books is because the Jews didn't like this one book that said they should be exterminated and the blacks didn't like this book that said they had inferior skull shapes, so one thing led to another and now it's illegal to think." Like what? Dude??
:wojak-nooo: you’re violating our free speech by not allowing us to be racist!
:chad-stalin:
Cancel culture is when I act like an asshole and it makes somebody stop respecting me.
Shit, I thought he was one of the good ones. Turns out I was incredibly incorrect.
one of the good ones
"good PMC childrens propaganda author"
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
Lol this is the most boomer shit.
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.
I'll admit to loving Bradbury's fiction, but Fahrenheit 451 is the book chuds ought to cite instead of 1984. Like it's right there in the text that the book-burning dystopia came about not because the state thought literature posed a threat, but because citizen groups had moral objections to the content of books.
(I know it's a moot point because they haven't read either book, but whatever)
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