I just got back from vacation, so I ahve no idea what "everyone" is saying. But it sounds to me like Bradbury is talking abot the germ of the book and the backstory of the book's present. It's easy to find parallels between Fahrenheit and 1984, but Bradbury seems to suggest that the situation in Fahrenheit is more a result of the citizens than of the state. The end result, the censorship state is the same, but the causes are very different. And it's easy to argue that the erosion of the quest for wisdom is more of a threat in modern America than the pointed establishment of a totalitarian state.
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Date: 2007-06-06 12:58 pm (UTC)I just got back from vacation, so I ahve no idea what "everyone" is saying. But it sounds to me like Bradbury is talking abot the germ of the book and the backstory of the book's present. It's easy to find parallels between Fahrenheit and 1984, but Bradbury seems to suggest that the situation in Fahrenheit is more a result of the citizens than of the state. The end result, the censorship state is the same, but the causes are very different. And it's easy to argue that the erosion of the quest for wisdom is more of a threat in modern America than the pointed establishment of a totalitarian state.