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How about Fahrenheit 451 or We? Almost every dystopian novel shares something with the world.
by dangoldin 13y ago
How about Fahrenheit 451 or We? Almost every dystopian novel shares something with the world.
- minimaxir 13y agoFahrenheit 451 is primarily about censorship of information, although government surveillance plays a small part.
- bcRIPster 13y agoWell, yes, censorship via disappearing history and feeding the masses a steady stream of meaningless entertainment to keep them complacent and detached from each other.
- derleth 13y agoFahrenheit 451 is primarily about self-censorship, born of a desire to avoid causing offense. Or, if you believe Bradbury, it's about Television Is Evil and nothing else: http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/ http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenh... > 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. [snip] > 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. > “Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was,” Bradbury says, summarizing TV’s content with a single word that he spits out as an epithet: “factoids.” He says this while sitting in a room dominated by a gigantic flat-panel television broadcasting the Fox News Channel, muted, factoids crawling across the bottom of the screen.
- stplsd 13y agoBecause we live int this shiny Brave New World in sea of irrelevance and nobody knows/cares about We. And because BNW is clearly plagiarism of We, that adds another quite ironic dimension.