Ray Bradbury on Fahrenheit 451 inspiration

[emile1171]

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[CosmoShidan]

Long live Ray Bradbury!

[faroukabad]

He's doing okay, a couple minor problems but he still goes to Comic-con every year and does public appearances when he can. He hasn't lost his positive attitude, and wants to live to 100. Let's hope he does.

[FalconKPD]

How is he in recent years? I hope he's still "stable" and everything- being 90.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@FalconKPD I understand he's still writing though now he has his daughter help him.

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

Will we always have the privilege of going to the library? We may not have them burned by Hitler or Julius Ceasar for that matter. No , its worse. Its possible that soon WE as a society will not care to keep them, and our governments may not wish to fund them. So , you think that will never be huh?Can never be?Hmmmm Interesting. 451 is not just about distopian future but about what the masses have always been. Self indulgant and semi conscious. These ideas were present when the book appeared too

[TheBookWorm1718]

@SCORNDOGGMELACH Tell me about it. Last year I read that Detroit was going to close EVERY SINGLE ONE of their 40 libraries, not leave a SINGLE one open, and a lot of them HAVE been closed in a lot of cities. We have only ONE library here and I go there every week, if it should ever close, God forbid, I would be crushed because I get a LOT of stuff there and use that library for inter-library loans for what they don't have.

[yousmokecrackers]

Ayn Rand is just as great. Atlas Shrugged movie trailer on youtube

[McLarenMercedes]

@yousmokecrackers

Ayn Rand was full of shit.

Type that exact sentence on Google, and you'll get pages full of people using those exact words. Tells you something....

[cha5]

I'm not sure you could get a guest on the scale of Ray Bradbury at Comic-Con Int these days, this was back when you could still get something of a variety of different kinds of guests, as opposed to these days when it's all increasingly nothing but Hollywood stars and directors and studios pimping the latest multi million dollar CGI blockbuster. Sad really :(

[DamianGarcia92]

Wow I didn't know he was still alive! One of the greatest authors ever. Fahrenheit 451 and Martian Chronicles are amazing books.

[ClassicGameMaster]

I read a few books latley, This one, Brave new World By Huxley and world zero minus, we are fucked for the future

[shakeycamerafilms]

@ClassicGameMaster the future is now.

[darkharusameXxsr]

i read fahrenheit 451 on an e-book....irony?

[MrMystery96]

This guy is a genius. He was able to predict modern society. The prid in having giant televisions, the way people have lower morales (Aka: Is hinting about the topic of abortion in F451), and the way people use books less and less. Soon.... Its not too long until he is completely right.

[TheJoshy123456789]

what i got out of the book is that not alot of ppl nowadays care about intelectual development like they do about sports etc. It bothers me that no one ever reads because it isnt "cool". Fahrenheit 451 shows a society in which ppl are "happy" b/c they dont need to care about politics, history, current events or moral growth, and how this is bad

[TheBookWorm1718]

@TheJoshy123456789 Exactly. You ask people 'are we like Fahrenheit 451?' and most people will say 'we don't burn books so no we're not'. Which says to me they never read the book, otherwise they would know we are so much like it, sports are important, up the sports, reduce the thinking, forget spelling and English, forget the histories, everybody must be happy, etc. How did nobody see this happening?

[JetMech72]

@TheBookWorm1718 Read Charlotte Iserbyt's "the deliberate dumbing down of america". This book explains everything you've just said. To paraphrase another author, Aldous Huxley; "We are learning to love our servitude." You're right on target with your post, we don't need to burn books, we just need to hype up the reasons not to such as sports and television and other forms of mind-wasting activities.

[Seeker4TheUnknown]

That book really had a big inmpact on way how I see the world, A Ture must read!

[villagegirl]

Love him- but why did people applaud not going to college? Sheeps taking the wrong message away- education isn't criminal. Jesus. And that's not what he meant either.

[songsparrow882]

I think they were applouding his comment about how you don't go to celloge to learn how to read and write- that is, they don't teach you how to think or use your imagination. my guess.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@songsparrow882 He's not wrong. I spent 5 years in college, they don't teach you how to be a writer.

[AliceElphabaWonka]

@TheBookWorm1718 I agree with you so much. I find school is very much over rated.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@villagegirl College and education are not synonyms, he got an education from reading every book in the library for 10 years. He simply said college doesn't teach you how to be a writer, and I served my own sentence in college, and he's right.

[TheBobcatChannel]

I read the book in high school a few years ago. It's really good!

[whoo689]

Isn't Ray Bradbury nowadays a pro-Bush registered conservative Republican? Irony!

[faroukabad]

no, he is neither Republican nor Democrat, and he says that if you think you are a Republican or a democrat, you should think again. meaning that you should always think for yourself and not just adopt the agenda of any particular group.

[LegatusExMundi]

@faroukabad

yeah. I think I remember him only liking Bush to begin with because of his love for education. At the time, Bush had just passed the no child left behind act, and it had not yet had enough time to prove that it would fail miserably.

[wevetra13]

@faroukabad Smart people scare me...then again...I like to be scared....

[songsparrow882]

how?

[alfred38uk]

@whoo689 Whats your point

[Billcot1]

He thought books were Jewish.

[hardenedcriminal]

what conference is this?

[faroukabad]

This was at the San Diego Comic-con, 2007

[Rollin558]

Thanks for this post. Ray Bradbury is a model of mine. I am subscribing to your videos.

[KSmoothSaxG]

hahaha i cant help laughing when he gets out of breath.

F451 is amazing

[mikeymystik]

Hey, he's old. I think he turned 89 this year.

[LegatusExMundi]

OMG. Ray Bradbury kicks ass. These are great vidoes; I just wish the world of literature was not controled by smug elitists so that he could be appreciated more.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@LegatusExMundi Amen to that.

[bugg333]

OMG! I'm writing a book report on Fahrenheit 451, and this is some GOOD, HELPFUL SHIT- i must say!

thank you very much for the video!

[happyteacherkeith]

I so enjoyed reading the afterword in the book I just bought to tutor with, about Bradbury as a young writer, writing in the garage and in the UCLA library, stopping to play with his daughters knocking on the garage window, really appreciating him until that scene or reference of the assault on girls popped into my mind and I am sickened now. Please editors, take that icky line out where the girl in the novel seems to uphold violence against children. We were mortified and it wrecked the novel.

[happyteacherkeith]

My comment is on the novel. As a grade 11 teacher it shocked, appalled and disturbed myself and my students to read the gross horrible reference to spanking, that Bradbury at the time was suggesting that spanking children is acceptable and that not spanking is somehow related to the demise of society. I hope that passage is removed as it disgusted and upset myself, my students and parents. I was just about to reread the book with appreciation when I remembered that dreaded section and closed it.

[myth2005]

Are you suggesting the book should be burnt ??

Times change, corporal punishment WAS considered appropriate for children e.g. the cane or sandshoe.

Today, many would consider this 'wrong' but during different times in history (and even today in some parts of society) this was not considered 'unjust'.

Maybe the book could help stimulate a discussion in the classroom about the changing views on children and rearing them, rather than removing parts of the book that you dislike.

[ooodeanmartin]

the wonderful death of dudly stone ,my favourite short story

[SimonTarot]

What a genius, and a genius with a heart.

[tiptoe221]

He's alive and 88. Born 1920.

[antonio215]

what do you mean fake? you're dumb

[Ariial]

He´s so cool.

[lil2kool]

omg Ray Bradbury is so old now?!?

[wwwExamplePapersCom]

It took me a minute and a half to realize it was fake.