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For those who have read "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury...?
...do you think he got it right with how society is turning out? :)
* I heard people discussing this and was curious about what others thought*
Sorry. I guess I should clarify. I'm saying how in the book people didn't care about each other. For example, they were consumed with electronics (like the wall TV). :
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- Anonymous5 years agoFavorite Answer
Ray Bradbury was walking in his neighborhood one night in (about) 1949, and a policeman stopped him, just a routine check apparently. Of that, Mr. Bradbury constructed a story, then combined it with another story about a book censor, into a novella. A publisher read the novella, asked that it be doubled into a novel (= "Fahrenheit 451").
When he was walking, he noticed all the homes with families inside, gathered around the internet of its time, television. So, yes, IM may be a convenient way to be less intimate. Related: "For Couples Only" by Shaunti Feldhahn addresses this.
- Elijah TenenbaumLv 65 years ago
It wasn't intended to be much a prediction. Nevertheless, I think we face the threat of that world becoming a reality, but progressive political figures have worked to keep us from from the tyranny conservatives want to impose on the population.
- FarOutsideLv 75 years ago
There was no right and wrong. He wrote a fictional story on one possibility -- as do all fiction writers.
I will say this, though, the PC culture in the United States is the biggest hindrance to freedom of speech in our history.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Um, not if you take it literally. I mean, even if Trump becomes president, I doubt there will be goon squads coming to my house to blowtorch all my books.
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