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AznRiceFan said: I’m sad to say I was pretty disappointed by Fahrenheit 451 and that it was a pretty stupid book.
It may seem stupid, but it’s a good telltale sign of where this society’s heading in the next 50 years if this crap continues. The average person essentially controlled by the media – it won’t be hard to shut a country down if the government is determined and controls the media, which then controls the people. =O
David said:AznRiceFan said: I’m sad to say I was pretty disappointed by Fahrenheit 451 and that it was a pretty stupid book.It may seem stupid, but it’s a good telltale sign of where this society’s heading in the next 50 years if this crap continues. The average person essentially controlled by the media – it won’t be hard to shut a country down if the government is determined and controls the media, which then controls the people. =O
I doubt so. Media’s evolved a lot in just the last five years or so and is becoming more and more decentralized. No government’s going to be able to ‘control’ people using the media.
Orly. I think that if the country is small enough, with a powerful military (kinda like Prussia after the late Renaissance, but with modern tech), you can get the people ignorant in an instant – especially if the technology there is bad, or, if the government controls all aspects of the media, including TV, radio, journalism, and the internet.
Think about it, it’ll be a cage, and the mice inside will become blind.
But then they’d get nuked by the UN. (reference to 451)
David said: Orly. I think that if the country is small enough, with a powerful military (kinda like Prussia after the late Renaissance, but with modern tech), you can get the people ignorant in an instant – especially if the technology there is bad, or, if the government controls all aspects of the media, including TV, radio, journalism, and the internet.Think about it, it’ll be a cage, and the mice inside will become blind.
But then they’d get nuked by the UN. (reference to 451)
The governments of many (if not most) small countries already have a monopoly on the media. Many forms of foreign media already are nothing but mere propaganda boosters. But the Internet is becoming exceedingly difficult to regulate. As is already well-documented in large-scale cases, Iran and China have had more and more trouble censoring the Internet.
Yeah, China rolled back their Green Dam-Youth Escort software plan lately.
But Iran succeeded didn’t they? The revolution’s boiling down – it’s still boiling, but it looks as if it’s controlled already. Ahmadinejhad won.
David said: Yeah, China rolled back their Green Dam-Youth Escort software plan lately.But Iran succeeded didn’t they? The revolution’s boiling down – it’s still boiling, but it looks as if it’s controlled already. Ahmadinejhad won.
Yes and no. Many Iranians used Twitter and Facebook during the revolution to get their news due to the fact the Iranian government was censoring everything left and right. They tried to block those sites as well, but never really succeeded. And while Ahmadinejad and his cronies have succeeded in quelling the revolution, the election’s left a lot of political unrest that they may never truly crush. It doesn’t help that some of the lower ranking clerics have declared the current government illegitimate either. The seeds have been sown for another political revolution.
But that’s neither here nor there. Let us return to Twilight bashing!
Twilight suks !1!
No – but seriously, this isn’t even good chick lit, it’s only ‘decent’ chick lit. People should pick up something better to read.
1000th POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David said: Twilight suks !1!No – but seriously, this isn’t even good chick lit, it’s only ‘decent’ chick lit. People should pick up something better to read.
1000th POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heeyyyyyyyyy….’chick lit’……if you take the c at the beginning of the first word, and put it at the beginning of the second word….LOLOLOL.
Sorry. I have developed this habit of rearranging letters on words.
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