7/2/2023 0 Comments The pedestrian ray bradbury![]() ![]() ![]() When I began to dig back into Bradbury’s library of work this month, the titles stuck out as familiar, but I didn’t immediately remember the stories. I dig Fahrenheit as much as the next paranoid English major, but today I revisited two of Ray Bradbury’s shorter works: The Pedestrian and The Veldt, two works that I’d read in college for assignments. The parallels exist between reality and Bradbury’s foreboding tales of futuristic terror run far deeper than that. That view, unlike Bradbury’s work, lacks nuance, though. It’s a comparison as easy as it is flawed, and it’s often used to critique our currently cultural shift toward inclusiveness. In fact, it’s mostly a single work that our modern world gets compared to: Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. In today’s social media-obsessed culture, where your opinion ain’t worth squat unless you tweet it out, it’s been noted – and tweeted, you bet – that we’re getting dangerously close to the dystopian future that sci-fi writers made careers out of prophesizing. ![]()
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