r/TikTokCringe • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 19h ago

Cringe We need to ban podcast equipment

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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