The parallels exist between reality and Bradbury’s foreboding tales of futuristic terror run far deeper than that. That view, unlike Bradbury’s work, lacks nuance, though. It’s a comparison as easy as it is flawed, and it’s often used to critique our currently cultural shift toward inclusiveness. In fact, it’s mostly a single work that our modern world gets compared to: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. In today’s social media-obsessed culture, where your opinion ain’t worth squat unless you tweet it out, it’s been noted – and tweeted, you bet – that we’re getting dangerously close to the dystopian future that sci-fi writers made careers out of prophesizing.
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