Ray Bradbury vs. Political Correctness

[Valin]

WSJ:

The science-fiction author, who died Wednesday, was a fierce critic of thought-control.

SOHRAB AHMARI

 

Science-fiction legend Ray Bradbury died in his California home Wednesday, age 91. Bradbury will long endure as a fierce critic of thought control.

 

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Bradbury was equally troubled by subtler censorship regimes, including the pressure to self-censor, taking hold in the free world. Indeed, "Fahrenheit 451" offered a prescient warning against the perils of political correctness. The book-burning program in the novel's universe was conceived in major part to prevent discrete groups and minorities from being offended.

 

"Bigger the population, the more minorities," fire chief Beatty tells the book's protagonist, Guy Montag. "Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere."

 

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Bradbury himself would face such pressures. In a coda added to the 1979 edition of the novel, Bradbury raged.

 

"For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conservationist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics," he wrote. "The tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule."

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[Geee]

Rest in Peace Ray Bradbury, Enemy of Political Correctness

 

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