co574 on Nostr: "Stuff people's heads with numbers, stuff them with innocuous facts until they get ...
"Stuff people's heads with numbers, stuff them with innocuous facts until they get sick, nothing, but they'll think they're very educated. They will even have the impression that they are thinking, that they are moving forward, though in fact they are standing still. And people will be happy, for the 'facts' with which they are stuffed are something unchangeable."
"But don't give them such slippery matter as philosophy or sociology. God forbid if they start drawing conclusions and generalizations."
"As much sport, games, fun as possible - let a man always be in the crowd, then he doesn't have to think."
• excerpts from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 #bookstr
(published in 1953) #quotestr
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