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Reminds me of Fahrenheit 451, where people drove around speeding and nobody cares as long as you pay the ~~protection money~~ insurance premiums
Liberals babble about 1984, but Fahrenheit 451 was a bit closer to our present reality when it came to predicting the future.
Look at how pissed people get when "scolds" show up and tell them that something they're consuming is bad and hurts people, actually.
Brave New World in the mix too. Emphasis on the feelies to placate the masses
The born-to-type caste system being seen as a good thing fits right with
ideology too.
Wasn't the whole vibe like a freeze peach kind of thing?
The "Noble Savage" character was a bunch of old reactionary
but the worldbuilding still accidentally holds up.
That's how it's typically interpreted because that's what makes the most sense, but from Ray Bradbury himself he was mad everyone was watching TV instead of reading
Yeah, and while the tv walls aren't really a thing, we do love our screen time.