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In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. βBooks cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column β¦ Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, βNow at last you can read all the classics.β β¦ School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?β
In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated βsummariesβ of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.
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Andrew Scott delivers this speech too slowly; I know some viewers will hate the way he breaks up the verse. AND YET even in spite of that I think this is the best delivery of this soliloquy Iβve ever seen.
He makes it sound like itβs not a portentous speech everyone already knows but a morally serious real-time deliberation, by a highly intelligent person in extreme pain, considering what it would mean to end his own life.
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Remember your labor history
#OtD 4 Sept 1919 5000 miners, many armed, marched on Logan County, WV, after hearing rumours of women & children being killed by mine operator thugs. They refused to leave until a committee could enter the area and verify all was quiet. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/podcβ¦
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a work of art. xitter.cf/lennna222/status/20800β¦
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βA model of life where I have the right to be entertained all the time seems to me not to be a very promising oneβ
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Final (2OT)
Maysville - 75
Wyoming trails- 73
Gator Nichols with the buzzer beater to send Maysville to the state championship for the second year in a row.
One of the best basketball games Iβve ever witnessed.
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10 minutes away from the tournament draws kicking off across the state.
Just wrote a blog on the two changes I would make to fix the OHSAA State Basketball tournament. Go check it out!
martinrpi.com/blog
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The persecutors love to talk about having been persecuted. Thereβs a line I wrote once that I seem to quote often now went something like, βThere were people in this world so privileged that the notion of enduring any discomfort at all, even for a second, struck them as trauma.β
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OMG! Pete Buttigieg just DEMOLISHED JD Vance on Bill Maherβs show. Vance is a fraud and Secretary Buttigieg perfectly explains how. This is absolutely worth a watch.