waxpumpkin.bsky.social
I just want a place to deposit my brain droppings and enjoy other kind-minded people.
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Authors and readers are regarded as pretentious and dangerous to the well-being of society. Montag meets many characters that change his outlook on life such as Clarisse and Faber.”
-Quoted from wikipedia entry of Guy Montag.
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Schools no longer teach the humanities, children are casually violent, and adults are constantly distracted by "seashells" (small audio devices resembling earbuds) and insipid television programs displayed on wall-sized screens.
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Bradbury emphasizes that the U.S. government, in burning books, is merely expressing the will of a people whose short attention spans, indifference, and hedonism have gradually eroded any semblance of intellectualism from public life.
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Value your physical media.
You already paid for it and nobody can take it away from you. At least until Montag Fire Brigades start popping up in your town.
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The way things have been unfolding over the past 25 years - especially the last 10 concerning streaming - is what caused me to box up a highly curated and varied collection of VHS & DVD’s I put together during high school and my twenties, but not get rid of.
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I suppose I am suggesting folks start building small libraries like that even if you rent.
Am also glad the guest room of our house is also our “library” with 4 full bookcases on all the things my wife & I love and have had interest in over the years.
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Where at worst, you learn how shit works enough to either fix it yourself or with your new found knowledge know you gotta call a professional.
Books explaining basics of electricity, plumbing, wood working, speed & steel squares and so forth.
I value having those hard reference copies.
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Within the space of 6 months during our first year in the home both my dad and last living grandpa died.
Those were the last 2 men in my world that were major teachers & sharers on life and how to do things.
So I started buying books from the 50s thru 90s on home improvement type things.
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We’re about to blue-screen.
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Maybe Chuck Cunningham will step up to foster?
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I keep meaning to learn how to shoot a gun as I never have still. Gonna take The Whang’s beautiful old rifle somewhere to be serviced as according to George’s account, it hasn’t been fired since the early 1970’s.
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Woah. I’m sorry.