@Burger King Leonidas  
Agreed. Say, you ever read any of the ‘Flashman’ novels by George Macdonald Fraser? Very, very un-PC but in an equal-opportunity way – whatever your ides about the past are they’ll take a beating in those books. And Fraser gives pages of notes in their appendices to illustrate what really did happen and giving you his sources. Personally I love them.

@zerowinger66  
Okay, that does make more sense that the version I’d been told.
 
Unfortunately my sources prior to this simplified it to ‘Bradbury is a cranky old man who hates modern life, so **** him.’

@Ardashir
 
@Burger King Leonidas
 
A big theme of the book - and of a lot of Bradbury’s stories, really - was how people had essentially permanently hooked themselves up to constant digital media/entertainment while cutting themselves off from the rest of the world and from each other. I haven’t read Farenheit 451 in ages, but one thing I keenly remember was how the main character’s wife was always watching and engrossed with digital dramas or listening to music on headphones (Bradbury was essentially describing and iPod or tablet 50 plus years before their invention), while pretty much never interacting with her husband or anyone else.
 
In a number of his stories, Bradbury described a society where everyone was perpetually indoors hooked up on a kind of digital Soma, engrossed in mindless entertainment and self-affirmation and constantly desiring the latest and greatest electronic toy, while otherwise mundane or normal things - from reading, to carnivals, to simply going for a walk - was viewed as aberrant behavior that needed to be suppressed.
 
So really, the biggest warning Bradbury gave wasn’t “TV bad” or even “censorship bad,” but rather the danger of allowing ourselves to become addicted to the constant electronic glow of whatever pleasure or gratification technology could provide us, while simultaneous both dulling our senses and our ability to interact with other human beings, and that it leads to a constant spiral of trying keep that dopamine hit high by getting whatever the next great tech is - which usually isn’t that much greater than the last one, and doesn’t fill the hole the people are filling in their lives.
 
In 2019, I don’t see his warning as being too far off.

@Ardashir  
That or we shouldn’t be trying to bury information and history no matter what the contents may be.

Yes, it was a book about the evils of television. As Ray told everyone towards the end of his life.
 
So, I guess that means this show is evil?

Don´t burn the books.

@Burger King Leonidas  
Our dystopian future isn’t going to be Orwellian - it’s going to be Bradburian.

@Prince Mainesly  
But yeah who would have guessed it would be new aged “progressives” that did all the burning? Digitally too.

@Prince Mainesly  
Oh. Nevermind then.

@Burger King Leonidas  
i just didnt like the book man… it was too far off for my tastes… v.v

@Prince Mainesly  
Then you have learned nothing from it.

That book… idk… i would have burned it too after reading it, lol

It was to her.