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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
This position of his that 451 was not about censorship of books, but about TV seems to have come out long after the book was written. I can only go with what I get out of the book, not what someone else tells me that I'm supposed to get out of the book, even if that person is the author. It's just hard to justify the position that it's not really about government censorship when the main theme is about the government burning books, and the title of the book is a reference to burning books. If people had simply become uninterested in books, there would be no need to burn books. You only need to suppress what people want to have access to. Sure, TV was shown as being mind-numbing in the book, but that appeared to be background, if anything more a symptom than a cause.
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Definitely agree with your assessment.
