How does this make you feel Sup Forums?

How does this make you feel Sup Forums?

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amused.

what a waste of a book

I don't get it. Isn't Fahrenheit 451 regarded as being one of the finest novels around?

I like that book, but who gives a shit? It's a fucking book.

>inb4 muh hitler book burnings

He bought it, his loss

I don't get it

> but communism will work this time i promise

It's a novel about burning books. So, it's probably supposed to be ironic. A few years ago I would have cared that someone burned a book, but only an idiot reads print these days.

Tickled

>when they don't understand the poetry of their action

It is very good, especially the CODA.

very meta

I like how the part about it being minority groups and womens rights activists who were the first to start calling for the book burns is removed from modern versions.

Yeah, it's obviously a joke.

>burning a book about burning books
this is obviously a joke user

I don't know. I've never read that.

>implying the don't
we're witnessing some abstract reverse anti-meming here user

I never finished it in my class. is it worth rereading

This guy gets it.

>burning fahrenheit 451 because you dislike it
Perfect irony there.

>muh perfect form of communisn totally works, it just hasnt been tried yet guys

The future will be about deleting OC memes to suppress free posting.

its pretty gud, 7/10

>Communism won't work guys, I read it in a children's book.

Someone's trying really hard to bait/be edgy?

>but only an idiot reads print these days.

Millennial detected.

Fahrenheit 451 is a great book. A bandwagon classic,but great.

Fahrenheit 451 sets in a dystopian world in the 90s (written in the 50s). People have become so dumbed down and drone like due to draconian laws being forced on the people. Literature that makes people think is outlawed. It's such an important aspect of their society that they even employ "firemen" to burn knowledge away.

It's even noticeable that the people weren't even interested in bettering themselves other than what they were told. Any involvement with new knowledge or different things surely had repercussions. People were happy with being hollow minded drones.

Anyways, if you haven't read the book I'll just start you off saying the main character is a fireman who actually ends up stealing some of literature he was supposed to burn.


The person burning the book in the picture is a fucking retard.

It's really relevant. I would suggest you guys to read it again. I really feel like Beatty sometimes

Millennials are stupid because they prefer to read books in electronic form?

desu Fahrenheit 451 was a mess, at a moment the dude is chatting up jailbait, then having an existential crisis, then engaging in literary warfare with his boss, then fleeing from robots, then getting nuked, and ends up joining a walking library of hobos because he memorized a part of the bible for no reason

Arsenal gear when?

Also, nah. Most books are now available online, but just in case, I know plenty of people, myself included that keep archives of them on 4tb hard drives. If the future gets too fucked, we have the libraries saved.

>Millennial detected.

There is literally no reason to read print. Faggots cry about how a book "feels". But i'm not trying to fuck the thing. I'm trying to decode and digest the information within it.

>Muh version of communism
>the state
>history doesn't matter

Seriously, communism is fucking outdated and childish. You can't share resources among massive amounts of people that aren't homogeneous.

Get the fuck over it you little pussy bitch.

okay book i guess but the next thing he cooks on the grill is just gonna taste like book

>it's probably supposed to be ironic
You can never really tell with these retards. I'm sure there's some made-up internet law for that somewhere out there.

russia admits planet

That's my favorite book.

The irony in this is just amazing

I don't know I mean reading something on print feels so much cozier to me and I enjoy it more

>communism won't work guys its never worked in any country that's adopted communism in the history of the world.

>Mention to my coworkera how things are getting a lot like 1984 when the cali audio recording stuff hit the news
>They look at me confused, after having brought up the recordings to start with
>Clarify, like the book
>They continue to look at me slackjawed
>They're all at least 10 years older than me
>Have no clue as to this classic piece of literature
>REEEE internally

Pretty faggy, but I don't really care.

I just know that I have 2 ebook readers with 64gb cards (one for fiction and one of non-fiction) that have about 100,000 books on them and fit in a small bag.

Larger than most libraries, senpai.

I saw the movie, the part where one ovthe firemen was monologuing about their duty and ended it with " it all has to go" while holding a copy of mein kampf got a chuckle out of me.

seems like satire

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Yes. They first rewrite them into something that doesn't challenge their beliefs, like making all the firemen Christian racists and all the rebels minorities and feminists, just to make sure there's nothing left to challenge their fanaticsl beliefs.

Much easier to do that when it isn't hardcopy.

The general public is fucking retarded, user.

fucking normies.

not an argument

Or you know, you could just look at every nation both in historic and modern times that has ever implemented communism
>inb4 "muh nordick countries"
They are homogenous countries whose small scale allows for socialist policies to be successful. Even then, their economies are based on very specific commodities that will fuck them over once they run out.
>inb4 "Chyna"
China was a shithole when it was actually communist. The current government is about as communist as the US is a direct democracy.
>inb4 "socialism =/= communism"
"The goal of socialism is communism" -Vladimir Lenin

He's got the right idea. Books have never changed culture or politics, they just give intellectuals material to namedrop when they whine about how the world is terrible.

Wait really they changed all that?

Wasn't the book the MC memorized the bible?

>mfw i visited the airport a few weeks ago

last time i flew was pre 9-11-01

my god the shit they play over the intercom/radio

and that fucking scanning muhcheen
>if you see something, say something

You haven't heard of Poe's law?

>>Communism won't work guys, I read it in a children's book.

Or you could just read a fucking history book about the Gulags, famines, purges, slavery, and tens of millions of deaths.

the irony of burning a book about burning books.

>That feel when parents who was into scifi and encouraged reading inadvertently redpilled me before I was a teen by leaving stuff like Bradbury, Orwell, Huxley, and Asimov lying around the house.

Also a ton of classical literature and philosophical pieces, based parents to be frank.

oh hahahahaha yeah thats so funny. because he burned a book but it's about book burning hahahahahahahahaha le ebin i totally get it dude

>Parents who was.

I feel like someone's gonna call me out on that, so "parents who were"

It's funny that Orwell was a socialist and his major works so clearly illustrated the failure of totalitarian governments (socialism, communism).

I'm a middle-aged father with a house full of books and I'm always surprised at what my kids freely choose to read. My daughter picked up "Bleak House" the other day, for example. As long as they think it's their own idea they don't mind reading heavy literature.

Orwell gradually grew disenchanted with socialism over the years, until he came to believe (a few years before his death) that it could only work in England because of the distinctive English national character at that time: stoic, obsessed with fair play, decency, hospitality etc.

it was pretty shitty and nothing happened the entire book.

1984 and Brave New World are a million times better.

451 is the ultimate redditor persecution complex fedora book
>Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy for there are no mountain to make them cower, to judge themselves against. ... Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? I won't stomach them for a minute. … [what we need is] More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and super organize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less.
Look at this poor fucker whining about dumb chads taking his crush
he whines a lot, also whined about some hypothetical people being offended

It's called satire faggot.

Post-ironic

Brave New World is scary as fuck. Scarier than 1984. At least 1984's society couldn't last because it was so actually fascistic. Brave New World is a setting where the ride legitimately never ends. Far closer to what we have now.

You do know that this is what Soros is literally doing.

In Brave New World, they destroy all culture around the world, all cultural sites, everything. As a result, the world is united and easily controlled because they have no deep personal philosophy.

literally fucking nazis, and they call us the nazis

How do you read in the sun?

i only get books still because reading shit on a screen gives me a fucking headache after a while

agreed. After re-reading both relativly recently I couldnt help but feel that brave new world was much more likely to happen

It's a good thing he died before it turned into a Muzzie hellhole, then.

Why are liberals obsessed with book burning Sup Forums?

I never got around to reading Brave New World and in this modern age I don't know if I could handle the depression it would induce.

Duhhh why do you think he had the main character of 1984 accept his position at the end?

This.

Let me guess, faggot, you have your "own version" of communism that is SURELY going to work.

Yeah, i'm well aware. And holy shit, it's been going on since the dawn of advertising in the 1950's.

What bothers me is that...it won't even have the easygoing, middle-class British mentality of the book. It's not going to be Orgy Porgy, it's just going to be fucking in the streets. We won't have feelies, we'll JUST have super-violent revenge fantasies on the big screen.

16 year old me would have killed himself if he ever thought I would say this legitimately, but...Brave New World will seem like a wonderful dream in 20 years time.

Have you tried the proper e-ink screens? They're a little more expensive but easier on the eyes than actual print.

lol i just bought this book.

theres nothing wrong with physical copies and alot of people find them better including me

I like collecting books and having physical copies.

I dont have to worry about charging shit
I can take it anywhere anytime
I dont want to stare at screens for a long time when i dont have to,espcially before bed because screens stimulate you.

apprently you absorb more information from physical books aswell

I also like the process of looking in book stores/libraries


are you serious?

No, we will have feelies.

VR is here, and within a couple years, we'll probably have VR suits as well, so you can feel sensations.

So I think we can all agree that The Fountainhead was pretty good, right?

Yep, it's true. Minority pressure and PC culture lead to the book ban.

iRONY

burning a book about firefighters who burn books

To be fare I would personally prefer a brave new world to a 1984 world. With the brave new world everyone is driven by desire/sexual freedom. That seems much more fun and "free" than the government controlling history and your life.

There's a part where the protagonist goes to a "feelie" (a movie plus sensations) whose plot is about a black man raping a blonde woman in a helicopter. This was published in 1932! It's as if Huxley could foresee the future of coalburning media.

Eh, whatever bro. But I am not sure about the charging aspect. You only have to charge ebooks once a month. I never cared much for the aesthetic pleasure of holding a book, or..sniffing it, or what have you. It's really just about the book itself for me.

No, you know....I think you're right. A VR version of gone home...


That is exactly the definition of a feelie.

FUCKING HELL.

you should at least put it under the grate s you could cook some wienies or something.

>fucking waste of a good fire

Recked

I only recently got into political satire/political dystopia

what are the required Sup Forums tier books?

[spoiler]rand fags fuck off[/spoiler]

It's still about control, just through different means. The government in BNW still kills people who challenge its authority, but if you drug yourself with narcotics, entertainment and sex they leave you alone, just like our governments do in the real world right now.

They're controlled utterly by it, though. It's overtaken them completely, and they have been stagnated and hobbled by it completely. Nothing matters any more. 1984 was driven by hate, but..Brave New World didn't even have THAT base ideal. It was all just...slow, willing euthanasia..

And people would go and gawk at those who chose to go innawoods, keeping them in zoos as curiosities.

>Communism won't work guys, I read it in a history book
fixed that for you.

"Bend Sinister" by Vladimir Nabokov is one of the lesser-known books about left-wing dystopia.

I sit in the shade to read or switch background colours. I couldn't read a print book in the sun either, because the majority of the page is white.

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Sorry mate, but Communism is as utterly doomed to failure as AnCap bullshit. It basically demands people quit acting human for it to work. A pipedream consigned to the ash heap of history where it belongs.

Behead All Satans

Completely serious. It was removed from a number of modern prints.

CELSIUS 451 IS A MUCH HOTTER BOOK

It's a book about book burnings. 451 is alledgedly the temperature books burn at.

Burning books don't melt steel grills.

>hipster detected
>therefore millennial also
>guilty of faggotry in the 3rd degree

it's the supposed auto-ignition temperature of the common book paper in that day