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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Well, in the movie, it is pretty clear that television was having a large negative influence on the general population, who wanted to veg out in front of the set for hours on end and were genuinely creeped out by anyone wanting to read a book. They were on board with book destruction.
I think there are Bradbury interviews where he said the book was about society rather than government.
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Well, it does say on wikipedia:
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The novel is frequently interpreted as being critical of state-sponsored censorship, but Bradbury has disputed this interpretation. He said in a 2007 interview that the book explored the effects of television and mass media on the reading of literature.[7] Bradbury went even further to elaborate his meaning, saying specifically that the culprit in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state—it is the people.[7] Yet in the paperback edition released in 1979, Bradbury wrote a new coda for the book containing multiple comments on censorship and its relation to the novel. The coda is also present in the 1987 mass market paperback, which is still in print.[8]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
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