Fahrenheit 451

[eredien]

My friend Fang Tsu posted this to his livejournal. It's worth a read, but only if you have time to become completely and sputteringly indignant over message twisting by today's political climate in Ray Bradbury's brilliant Fahrenheit 451.

Go to Amazon.com and rate that sucker so it dies.

Comments

[weirdquark]

*doesn't have time to be comepletely and sputteringly indignant but read it anyway*

I was thinking about Fahrenheit 451 recently in the context of our current situation. Gah. And Bab-5 and Orwell. I've been doing that sort of thing a lot.

What's sad is I wasn't really surprised by that review. I've been posting on current events forums and there are people that actually think like that. I read an article yesterday that said that Bush is a polarizer -- people either love him and thing he's saving the country or hate him and think he's destroying it. With very little middle ground.

[homasse.livejournal.com]

It was like that with Clinton, too--no one was really indifferent to him.

But at least Clinton wasn't a fucktard running the country into the ground, but hey.


*g* What was that about a polarizer...? ;)

[weirdquark]

Yeah, but Clinton had sex! That's much worse!

[homasse.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes, silly me. WHat's destroying the US's global standing in the face of *gasp* sex?

Rate it so it dies?

[thespooniest.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I'm not sure that downrating it into oblivion is a good idea.

Things like this should be kept around, as a reminder of the ignorance that we must fight. As long as there are idiots like this out there, we will always have to be vigilant against unbridled idiots like this, because sad to say, they outnumber us. This is something which we cannot allow ourselves to forget, because this is the sort of barrier that we have to overcome.

Re: Rate it so it dies?

[(Anonymous)]

Much as I really would like to kill the idiot who wrote that (even if, as they said on Fang Tzu (sp?)'s LJ, it's a troll), I have to agree. I also would mention that each of us has the potential to be that blind and idiotic about something, and so we can't ignore that this sort of thing happens.

That said, this idiot makes me want to swear more than I ever have before. Ray Bradbury wasn't -ALIVE- when 9-11 happened you frickin' idiotic dorkface! Aaaaaaaagh!

-the half incensed, half soberly reflective IW

Re: Rate it so it dies?

[eredien]

Actually, he is still alive. And I am pretty sure he was also alive when 9/11 happened. Unless I missed something really important about the order of the living/dying process.

[daisho.livejournal.com]

Fang Tsu seemed slightly perturbed by the fact he garnered so much response to his post, so I think, seeing as you pointed me towards it, I'll add my two penn'orth here. :)

I'm in agreement with those who thought it was a troll -- and because the Amazon comment therefore had no merit whatever, it should be rated out of existence.

Edit: further comment excised -- again. <:)