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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

The Flame vs The Shame

Ray Bradbury got it wrong in 'Fahrenheit 451'.

Book burning is a noisy activity
that always causes alarm. 
The quieter way to kill a culture 
is less to burn it's books,
but to shame people into not reading them,
or make literacy the object of fear and superstition,
the better to stop new ideas being written.

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