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Bradbury still has a lot to say, especially about how people do not understand his most literary work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953. It is widely taught in junior high and high schools and is for many students the first time they learn the names Aristotle, Dickens and Tolstoy.
Now, Bradbury has decided to make news about the writing of his iconographic work and what he really meant. Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship. Nor was it a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands.
This, despite the fact that reviews, critiques and essays over the decades say that is precisely what it is all about. Even Bradbury’s authorized biographer, Sam Weller, in The Bradbury Chronicles, refers to Fahrenheit 451 as a book about censorship.
Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
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irwinchenBradbury wrote that “Radio has contributed to our ‘growing lack of attention.’... We have become a short story reading people, or, worse than that, a QUICK reading people.”
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12 Jun 07
Jason CampbellRay Bradbury smacks literary types who think Fahrenheit 451 is about government's heavy handed censorship; rather, it's about television's ruining of people's appetite for ideas and books...
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This, despite the fact that reviews, critiques and essays over the decades say that is precisely what it is all about. Even Bradbury�€™s authorized biographer, Sam Weller, in The Bradbury Chronicles, refers to Fahrenheit 451 as a book about censorship. Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
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02 Jun 07
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F Fthe culprit is not the state, it is the people. TV is an opiate, its actors are “family” - like fans referring to the characters by first name, as if they were relatives/friends. Contrast: Orwell’s 1984: gov uses TV to indoctrinate citizens.
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mathew ☕The story is supposed to be about TV destroying books, not about government censorship.
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He says the culprit in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state — it is the people. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, in which the government uses television screens to indoctrinate citizens, Bradbury envisioned television as an opiate. In the book, Bradbury refers to televisions as “walls” and its actors as “family,” a truth evident to anyone who has heard a recap of network shows in which a fan refers to the characters by first name, as if they were relatives or friends.
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