Fahrenheit 451

When you see how much he seems to love jail, he's reading Fahrenheit 451.

...the flashpoint of paper is not Fahrenheit 451... the flashpoint of books is not Fahrenheit 451, it is Fahrenheit 851...

...Ray Bradbury apparently changed the title because Fahrenheit 451 sounds a lot better than Celsius 450...

We get 1984. We get Fahrenheit 451.

Two bookshelves, science fiction, Dune, Hitchhiker's Guide, Fahrenheit 451, Orwell, Vonnegut.

The one that I actually just bought a signed autographed copy of a book That's it was in a copy of Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury Which I think is just a masterwork and it's so it's so well read that it's actually underrated right this happens Sometimes there's a movie that's been seen so many times [00:38:51.390 --> 00:39:03.950]

In just a second we are going to get to the book that predicted all of this Fahrenheit 451 which is right on the money Ray Bradbury was a prophet.

But Fahrenheit 451 has some sections that are just absolutely prophetic.

I'm going to read you one of those sections from Fahrenheit 451 a book that I'm sure will be burned at some point in the future for being insufficiently woke.

It was a dark and stormy night. Two figures, one on horseback.

The assassin stared at the TV set in the hotel room.

She stumbled upon his hidden dungeon and found him climbing out of her coffin.

I wish there was a book about it. Fahrenheit 451.

I wish there was a book about it. Fahrenheit 451.

I think it's funny because I read a story about how Ray Bradbury was giving a college lecture or something, and they were talking about Fahrenheit 451 and the question of like, what is it about? And when he explained that it's about how when everyone is offended, the censors have to censor everything. The students argued with him saying, no, it's about government censorship.

And he's like, what? No, it's about how there's a passage in it where it's like, if you insulted a cat, you offended cat owners. So you couldn't say that. And if you insult the dogs, dog owners got mad. And if you said anything about the trade unionists, the unions got mad. So you couldn't say that. So everything must be shut down because everyone's pissed off all the time.

You're forgetting one name as well or just or well or Huxley it's also Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 it's all coming together what's that story people became so offended that the society built up firemen who would go and destroy offensive materials and it's not about the government doing it it's about the people collectively being like if you make a book critical of the unions that's offensive to you can't have that if someone likes dogs what's offensive to cat owners so you gotta get rid of it all because you're gonna have the police demanding hey it's past curfew get in your pod then you're gonna have that but don't worry in your pod you're eating nothing but cheese cake you're eating creme brulee cookie dough caramel fudge cheese cake triple dipped deep fried every minute of every waking hour whatever you could want pulsing your ass and you wake up stronger and it's safer because we're always at war and but then there's all the information removed from your existence because everyone's shocked and offended by it so in your private reality you have whatever you want but no one dare go outside of it or interact there's gonna be the solo player pod your own private universe sometimes you can invite friends in but just for you and then there's gonna be the interactive PVP version but no one dare do anything exciting there because too offensive.

Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read. You did not read that.

Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read.

Fahrenheit 451 like books. They burn books.

a public library system in Washington state wanted a copy of Fahrenheit 451. That would cost them $51.99 for the license. The e-book could then only be checked out by one patron at a time, and it would expire after two years.

And when it comes to books, actually, you're in my mutual friend. Ben Shapiro has been really good on this topic, and I've been retweeting him a lot this week because, you know, you think about Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel for 451 being the temperature at which paper burns. That's all about censorship and book burning.

I've come to deliver a grave warning about cancel culture.

In your society, efforts to avoid being triggered by critical thinking, you are transforming America into a giant safe space that can result in only one thing. Big flame thrower guys like me burning all the books.

The books are a metaphor.

The tweets are the real books.

Face it, tweets are the new books and books are the new nothing.

there is more than one way to burn a book and the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

It's like a combination of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. It's called Fahrenheit 1984-51.

It's called Fahrenheit 1984-51.

I've read it a couple times since but it's a book I read in high school and I remember taking from this the idea that the government tries to censor what people can read and it was only later in the context of the times that we live in now that I realize that's actually not what Bradbury is trying to tell us at all Bradbury was concerned about a world that was too stupid to be concerned about government censorship and he was actually most concerned about people who wanted the government to censor them because they didn't want to be offended they didn't understand what the fuss about books was all about they didn't understand why something so explosive or controversial or divisive should be allowed to exist and at 15 years old I was you know incapable of understanding what this was about and it also seemed a bit you know naive or science fiction and now we live in a world where tragically that's not the case