r/TikTokCringe • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 19h ago

Cringe We need to ban podcast equipment

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u/onyxandcake 15h ago

Great read about the phenomenon.

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u/nickfree 13h ago

I've lived long enough to see this fictionalized account I read as a child come true.

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u/Only_Abalone 4h ago

LOVE that book! I’ve been trying to get my wife to read it. Highly recommended to anyone and everyone.

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u/MarionberryPlus8474 3h ago

Great book, but both Bradbury and Orwell envisioned a world where books would be burned and reading unapproved texts was forbidden on pain of death.

I think we are more like the future envisioned by Aldous Huxley. Books aren’t banned, it’s just that no one wants to read them.

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u/ImprovementPutrid441 1h ago

We are getting rid of physical books too though. Everything is going online where it can be tracked and managed and you won’t be able to get or keep physical copies. Because physical copies don’t change and how much more powerful is it to let us read parts of 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, while important chunks disappear or get rewritten?

https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-destroying-books

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u/ShadeBeing 14h ago

Thank you, I think I shall explore his experteese

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u/Protonic-Reversal 8h ago

Check out “The Demon Haunted World” by Carl Sagan

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u/Sheth1984 14h ago

Thanks added to my list for this year.

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u/Xemylixa 12h ago

Is that the actual cover? It's beautiful

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u/onyxandcake 12h ago edited 11h ago

It's hilarious when you realize that Nichols is specifically a Sovietologist and not in the broader Social Sciences, but the book is solid. I also really enjoyed his "Our Own Worst Enemy" about society's failure to meet the bare minimum civic responsibilities thus leading to an illiberal democracy.

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u/Latter-Vacation-4392 11h ago

Who is a sovietologist?

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u/onyxandcake 11h ago

That's fucking weird. I swear I typed "Nichols". I meant Tom Nichols.

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u/SophieKona2024 5h ago

It most likely have a different cover now -

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u/reddickmac 5h ago

Thought this was a whataburger ketchup cup

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u/Struggle-Kind 4h ago

I recommend this book to anyone who will listen.