This is hilarious. Found floating around Facebook.

#StarTrek #GeneRoddenberry #Fahrenheit451 #RayBradbury

#RayBradbury Reveals the True Meaning of #Fahrenheit451: It’s Not About #Censorship, But People “Being Turned Into Morons by #TV”

in Books | August 10th, 2017 9 Comments

' 'Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship,' wrote the Los Angeles Weekly’s Amy E. Boyle Johnson in 2007. 'Nor was it a response to Senator #Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands.' Rather, he meant his 1953 novel as 'a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.' "

https://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-true-meaning-of-fahrenheit-451.html

#Idiocracy #DumbingUsDown #PutDownThePhones #AISucks #ReadABook

Just remembered that #RayBradbury's #Fahrenheit451 predicted (something like) Bluetooth earbuds about 50 years before they became a thing.

I remember reading that part of the book in the early 90s and being rather puzzled about it. 😄

American Nightmares: The Near-Future Dystopia as Political Warning, from Bradbury to Butler to the Present
https://boldly.blue/near-future-dystopia-political-science-fiction-guide/
A guide to the American political dystopia. Enter at your own risk.

#Dystopia #ScienceFiction #RayBradbury #OctaviaButler #PhilipKDick #UrsulaLeGuin #NKJemisin #PoliticalFiction #SpeculativeFiction #LiteraryAnalysis #Fahrenheit451 #ParableOfTheSower
#dystopianfiction