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Re: Best Political Cartoons
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #436 on: March 14, 2012, 01:30:11 pm »
Meanwhile, I posit that both are actually correct, as the ideologies they feared aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #438 on: March 14, 2012, 02:41:43 pm »
Isn't it technically counterproductive to portray Rush as a whore in an attempt to criticize him on calling other people whores?
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #439 on: March 14, 2012, 04:06:18 pm »
I'm more interested in the fact that that image will haunt my nightmares.
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« Reply #440 on: March 14, 2012, 04:49:46 pm »


Placed here, if for no other reason than the coinage of "horseberg".
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« Reply #441 on: March 14, 2012, 05:18:25 pm »


Placed here, if for no other reason than the coinage of "horseberg".

I'm not sure what that one means personally, but it involves equines, so I love it.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #442 on: March 14, 2012, 05:37:04 pm »
I'd say that both Orwell and Huxley have been proven to be right- just not in Australia or the US. Brezhnev Russia was a pretty straight adoption of 1984.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #443 on: March 14, 2012, 07:40:22 pm »
Meanwhile, I posit that both are actually correct, as the ideologies they feared aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Same here. I think Fareheit 451 actually has a nice blend on the concepts, even if it hits you a bit more heavily with the “Censorship!” end of the stick. Maybe Bradbury was closest of all?
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« Reply #444 on: March 14, 2012, 07:43:53 pm »
the continuation of the "controversial" Doonesbury comic

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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #445 on: March 14, 2012, 08:05:08 pm »
Meanwhile, I posit that both are actually correct, as the ideologies they feared aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Same here. I think Fareheit 451 actually has a nice blend on the concepts, even if it hits you a bit more heavily with the “Censorship!” end of the stick. Maybe Bradbury was closest of all?

*coughs* "Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context."

Though I do agree it's a good blend all things considered.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #446 on: March 14, 2012, 08:08:29 pm »
Meanwhile, I posit that both are actually correct, as the ideologies they feared aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Same here. I think Fareheit 451 actually has a nice blend on the concepts, even if it hits you a bit more heavily with the “Censorship!” end of the stick. Maybe Bradbury was closest of all?

It wasn't about censorship, it was about how television and mass media is ruining literature forever. He falls more on the "Huxley" side.

He also doesn't own a computer and thinks the internet is a scam.
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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #447 on: March 14, 2012, 08:11:09 pm »
Meanwhile, I posit that both are actually correct, as the ideologies they feared aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Same here. I think Fareheit 451 actually has a nice blend on the concepts, even if it hits you a bit more heavily with the “Censorship!” end of the stick. Maybe Bradbury was closest of all?

It wasn't about censorship, it was about how television and mass media is ruining literature forever. He falls more on the "Huxley" side.

He also doesn't own a computer and thinks the internet is a scam.

To be fair he did finally release Fahrenheit 451 onto e-book format. It's odd that he wouldn't since it would be read which is the opposite of the fear he has.

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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #448 on: March 14, 2012, 08:31:49 pm »
Meanwhile, I posit that both are actually correct, as the ideologies they feared aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Same here. I think Fareheit 451 actually has a nice blend on the concepts, even if it hits you a bit more heavily with the “Censorship!” end of the stick. Maybe Bradbury was closest of all?

It wasn't about censorship, it was about how television and mass media is ruining literature forever. He falls more on the "Huxley" side.

He also doesn't own a computer and thinks the internet is a scam.

To be fair he did finally release Fahrenheit 451 onto e-book format. It's odd that he wouldn't since it would be read which is the opposite of the fear he has.
the guy is a major luddite he thought the same about radio

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Re: Best Political Cartoons
« Reply #449 on: March 14, 2012, 08:35:47 pm »
Meanwhile, I posit that both are actually correct, as the ideologies they feared aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Same here. I think Fareheit 451 actually has a nice blend on the concepts, even if it hits you a bit more heavily with the “Censorship!” end of the stick. Maybe Bradbury was closest of all?

*coughs* "Bradbury has stated that the novel is not about censorship, but a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature, which leads to a perception of knowledge as being composed of factoids, partial information devoid of context."

Though I do agree it's a good blend all things considered.

What Bradbury intended and what people get out of it are often different things. As it is, although Montag’s wife helps exemplify this “TV is evil” thing, the vast amount of attention paid to the Censorship issue tends to make it much clearer and more memorable. Hell, the “TV is Evil” aspect didn’t even feature much in Beatty’s “history lesson,” instead focusing on a bit of “Political Correctness Gone Mad.” If Bradbury truly intended Farenheit 451’s primary theme to be anti-television, he failed.
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