Don't hope to get rid of books (Umberto Eco)
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451° Fahrenheit

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Fahrenheit 451° is the temperature at which paper ignites and burns. Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of post-industrial society. This is a future world in which all written publications are mercilessly destroyed by a special fire brigade, book possession is prosecuted, interactive television successfully serves the purpose of universal dumbing down, punitive psychiatry decisively deals with rare dissenters, and an electric dog is dispatched to hunt down incorrigible dissidents... A novel that brought its author worldwide fame. Ray Bradbury's philosophical dystopia paints a bleak picture of the development of post-industrial society. A novel that brought its author worldwide fame. Bradbury's 2007 statement that Fahrenheit 451 is misunderstood was sensational. This book is not about government censorship; it is a story about how television is destroying interest in reading books. In the early 1950s, most Americans had never seen a television, yet Bradbury predicted a new era of freedom, prosperity, and entertainment, when the desire for happiness, coupled with political correctness, would lead to the banning of books. “Colored people don’t like ‘Little Black Sambo.’ Burn it. … White people don’t like ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ Burn that, too. Someone wrote a book about how smoking predisposes people to lung cancer. The tobacco industry is panicking. Burn that book. …A book is a loaded gun in your neighbor’s house. Burn it! Unload the gun!”
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