{"id":4026,"date":"2019-07-14T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2019-07-14T09:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:29:40","slug":"ray-bradbury-wrote-fahrenheit-451-to-prevent-a-dystopia-instead-he-predicted-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4026","title":{"rendered":"Ray Bradbury Wrote \u2018Fahrenheit 451\u2019 to Prevent a Dystopia. Instead, He Predicted One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/ray-bradbury-wrote-fahrenheit-451-prevent-dystopia-instead-he-predicted-one\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/bookburning.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a strange irony that, in the age of the Internet, which was supposed to encourage more transparency and debate, the open exchange of ideas is under threat. This was pointed out by another famous science fiction writer, Michael Crichton. \u201cIn the information society,\u201d says Ian Malcolm in<i> Jurassic Park<\/i>, \u201cNo one thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"\/\/intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/ray-bradbury-wrote-fahrenheit-451-prevent-dystopia-instead-he-predicted-one\">Ray Bradbury Wrote \u2018Fahrenheit 451\u2019 to Prevent a Dystopia. Instead, He Predicted One<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a strange irony that, in the age of the Internet, which was supposed to encourage more transparency and debate, the open exchange of ideas is under threat. This was pointed out by another famous science fiction writer, Michael Crichton. \u201cIn the information society,\u201d says Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, \u201cNo one thinks. We expected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ray Bradbury Wrote \u2018Fahrenheit 451\u2019 to Prevent a Dystopia. Instead, He Predicted One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,18,26,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st-amendment","category-culture","category-education-higher-ed","category-intolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}