Oddly, I've never read Fahrenheit 451.
Read the speech. Spot on. And i love the writing style. Found the pace of my internal audio sped up and down with the way he spoke. Reminded me of Harrison bergeron in a way.
Will definitely read the book.
Yep.
I've said it before and I'll say it again (it almost seems obvious, if not completely insane):
All the media we have been presented in our lives, has been propaganda and prophecy.
Behavior modifications and warnings and desensitization of what the future was to be, now is.
Some of it dumbed down the masses and washed their minds free of thought - hello marvel cinematic universe, fast and furious, reality TV, Facebook, idiocracy, etc
Some sent signals through the fray - Vonnegut, Bradbury, pkdick, Asimov, Huxley, Orwell, idiocracy, etc. But especially SciFi/speculative fiction writers.
On the whole, it seems all the dystopian futures have merged.
I sometimes half jokingly comment to myself 'I wish people would stop writing our future like this. Maybe someone could write us a happy future."
Or maybe it's our collective consciousness fulfilling its collectively accepted belief that the future can only be what we've been exposed to.
After all,
"One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years."
Thought Bernard Marx, who was a specialist on hypnopædia.
"Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth."
No, it's the right one.
It's just there are so many evil old fucks these days he's not the only right one.