What burns more than truth?
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A novel of an alternative future, a dystopia, and science fiction/speculative novel that could not happen here. Right? What if our electronic media encouraged our desire to be happy by not facing hard truths? What if more and more of us were pleased to be entertained and not challenged? What if our media became our reality and we ignored the natural landscape and starscape and stayed within four talking glimmering walls? And what if our politicians and leaders knew that, by encouraging all of this they, could keep power and do what they wanted with the full support of our ignorance? Would there come a time when reading deeply was banned? When thinking certain thoughts was outlawed? Where words were to be stripped of all but their most innocuous definitions? Surely this could not happen here? Right?
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