Was Ray Bradbury right.

As we all know, book sanitation is becoming a major issue, as one minority can’t accept a few of what they deem offensive according to their self belief.

Now instead of the publisher standing firm and acknowledging that there may be content in either movies, music, other media that may upset someone.

And saying we understand this content may offend someone, stand firm and acknowledge that their media, was produced in a time where this was not as offensive as people perceive these days.

And say this is where we were, and state that society has changed, though we need to remember the times we were in. And we have now taken strides to change.

Book burning isn’t all that different than “adjusting” media to suit the current climate.

a reply to: robsmith

Universal constants...

Death
Taxes
and invariability someone will be offended by something at some time.

I watched a video of a man going into a department store and become livid and extremely offended by shirts with rainbows on them...The shirt depicted a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow...funny thing to become upset about, pretty sure the design has existed for decades.

Funny how people have taken this sensitivity and had the bible banned in Utah for being "pornographic". Whats next, Star Wars a New Hope because brother and sister kissed

a reply to: robsmith

It's more insidious than actual burning of books.

Burning books looks scary, with the fire and the customary accompaniment of properly incensed crowds; but book burning only attacks ideas, sometimes even making them stronger as a reaction.

"Book sanitation" is effectively a rewriting of history. It is more accurately linked to Orwell and 1984 than to Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

a reply to: incoserv

Funnily enough they are now rewriting Orwell.


www.dailywire.com...


Thought the last paragraph of the article made a good point.

originally posted by: karl 12
a reply to: incoserv

Funnily enough they are now rewriting Orwell.


www.dailywire.com...


Thought the last paragraph of the article made a good point.

Which is just sad. 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale of what happens when soft despotism becomes a full blown dystopia. Reality isn't nearly as entertaining as "fiction".

originally posted by: karl 12
a reply to: incoserv

Funnily enough they are now rewriting Orwell.


www.dailywire.com...


Thought the last paragraph of the article made a good point.

I literally LOLed over that; not that it's actually funny in itself, but the irony.

Oh, the irony!

The world just gets stupider and stupider every day.

Jesse James, a contributor at Not the Bee, said of the new feminist retelling, “We have reached the stage of political discourse where they’ve actually started to subject Orwell himself to Orwellianism.”

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a reply to: robsmith
Please give me a clue where Ray Bradbury comes in your post? Not everybody has read Ray Bradbury to know what you are alluding too.

How about this to open your eyes. Please look at the story of Animal Farm, Orwell's story alluding to communism. Then swap Napoleon for Biden and you WILL realise you are living in a communist state. The actions that Napoleon does is a mirror for Biden.

a reply to: crayzeed

Bradbury wrote a book called Farhenhrit 451, about a world in which books were outlawed and burnt if found. F.451 is the burn point of paper.

These days we tend to skip the books and burn the authors instead.

Think there or is a planned remake of this (451) as well. Edit: Seems to have been an HBO remake in 2018 .