=====================================“ ‘Oh, but we’ve plenty of off-hours’
‘Off-hours, yes, but time to think? You can’t argue with a televisor. Why? The televisor is real. It is immediate. It has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to it’s own conclusions, your mind hasn’t time to protest, ‘What nonsense!’”
--Faber and Montag, “Farenheit 451”
“ ’I voted last election,’ said Mrs. Bowles, ‘same as everyone. And I laid it on the line for President Noble. I think he one of the nicest looking men ever became President.’
‘Oh, but the man they ran aginst him!’
‘He wasn’t much, was he? Kind of small and homely and he didn’t shave too close or comb his hair very well. Fat, too, and didn’t dress to hide it. No wonder the landslide was for Winston Noble. Even their names helped. Compare Winston Noble to Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost figure the results.’ “
--“Farenheit 451”
“ ‘If you don’t weant a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides of a question to worry him, give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.... Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to popular songs or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ and they’ll feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. And they’ll be happy, for facts of that sort don’t change. Then they’ll feel their thinking. They’ll get a sense of motion without moving.’”
--Captain Beatty, “Farenheit 451”
Amazing, isn’t it? Bradbury wrote this in 1950! This man is a prophet, and his familiar song plays us out with violins...
(if these shadows remain unaltered by the future, which in never 100% certain)
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