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You can use Paypal, Venmo, Patreon, even Crypto! Archive All posts by date. Advertise With Us. Great Recordings T. All rights reserved. Open Culture was founded by Dan Colman. The common wisdom is that the past was pretty good, the present is barely tolerable, but the future will be all Terminator -style robots and Idiocracy slides into chaos.
Fahrenheit is one of those rare sci-fi novels that ages wonderfully—and remains just as terrifying today as it did in the middle of the 20 th century, for a variety of reasons.
The main character, Montag, is a fireman who begins to look at the illiterate, entertainment-obsessed, and shallow society he lives in with suspicion, and begins stealing books from the homes he burns. This is often boiled down to a slim metaphor on book-burning—which is a thing that still happens—or a slightly more subtle hot-take on censorship, which by itself makes the book evergreen.
In the novel, Bradbury has the main antagonist, Captain Beatty, explain the sequence of events: Television and sports shortened attention spans , and books began to be abridged and truncated in order to accommodate those shorter attention spans. At the same time, small groups of people complained about language and concepts in books that were now offensive, and the firemen were assigned to destroy books in order to protect people from concepts they would be troubled by.
Things are certainly nowhere near that bad right now—and yet, the seeds are clearly there. Attention spans are shorter. Abridged and bowdlerized versions of novels do exist. Film and television editing has become incredibly fast-paced, and video games have arguably had an effect on plot and pacing in stories in the sense that many of us need stories to be constantly exciting and thrilling in order to keep our attention, while slower, more thoughtful stories seem boring.
They prefer to live in a bubble. We can see those bubbles everywhere around us today, and we all know people who only get their information from limited sources that largely confirm what they already think. Which means that the seeds of Fahrenheit are already here. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content.
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