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I wish more people actually took time to read classic literature. The point of it (among many others) is to make you see historical parallels. And develop a complex understanding of things, not just "entertainment consumerism". I think governments cut budget for humanities because of that.

Boze Herrington, Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · last yr.

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

Also, the war on intellectualism and endorsement of aggressive consciousness illiteracy, labelled as "I'm against the system and I refuse to listen to any authority, so fuck your classics and your humanities", also greatly helps those who want people not to understand what is being done to them.