Fahrenheit 451: All about the Boob Tube
In case you thought that Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was about bookburning and censorship (you know, since it has all the bookburning and censorship in it), you’d apparently be wrong.
He says that it was about TV. It was about his hatred of large-screen TVs, factiods over the news instead of real news, shallow TV knowledge instead of deep book knowledge, reality TV, and more.
This is kind of hard to believe, since he wrote the book before any of that stuff. Maybe he was that smart? Maybe, but I don’t think that TV has really killed the book, or knowledge. Whatever.
Thanks to aldaily for pointing this out.