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It pisses me off when people use fantasy to call someone evil (lemmygrad.ml)
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"X is acting like Voldemort. Voldemort level evil. Literally 1984." What are you a child?

If someone brags about reading for status but only reads fiction, their knowledge is useless in practice. Fiction can be great, but treat it like junk food, enjoyable but not real world wisdom

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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

yeah, this exactly the sort of thing that Fahrenheit 451 talks about (I never read it).

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I actually read F451 as a kid. Really good book personally, lots of stuff Bradbury obviously wanted to vent about. It is way more anti-Capitalist than 1984, but still isn't perfect.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I never read the book before, only read summaries and some anecdotes of Bradbury being pissed off about people misunderstanding his work. No book is perfect, but I think the message "people won't read because they don't want to" is way more realistic than "people won't read because Big Brotha is watching them"

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