Does anybody have tips for feeling okay or fighting against this information apocalypse going on? It sometimes feels a lot like we're heading into a world of noise, chaos, and superstition.
You should read this book.
If you have already read it and it's been a while, you should read it again.
It's funny, because Mr. Bradbury considers 451 to be one of his worst literary failures, because everyone thought the novel was really about something else. The superficial take-away is one of "censorship is bad," but it's not a story about censorship.
It feels a lot like our world today.
As people here and elsewhere are coming to that unsettled realization that the adage of "once on the Internet, forever on the Internet" is a lie, I'm reminded of a scene near the end of the novel that I won't elucidate on in case you haven't read the book, but it's very evocative of the vibe I feel as I walk through spaces that have been cast out from corporate social media circlejerks. In that scene, I feel, is a hint of what we should be doing.
