Today we tend to scoff at the bookburners, the backward (most likely southern) illiterates of old who banned Twain, burned Beatles anthologies and supped Southern Comfort like it was their sister's tit.
These pyros spawned Bradbury's now famous novel, Fahrenheit 451; a major influence toward our realization that censorship is a a grievous mistreatment of human intelligence (except when the moron in class is verbally silenced by the instructor, that is justified censorship).
After I finished re-reading the book I thought to myself, "Man, that society would suck to live in. I mean, their print media is virtually non-existent, they engage in war and mobilize troops all the time, all people care about is television or sports and their entire life is spent being considered a consumer, someone to market to daily and nightly."
The first step to life is to pull the plug.
-Mozart
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