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What do you mean social media ? If you're referring to a website please don't label it social media as this is PR and novlang.

Facebook and twitter share the characteristic of getting the worse out of people and capitalizing on it, so this would introduce a bias by giving a megaphone to idiots and people acting like idiots.

To answer your question, no one better that Ray Bradbury can tell what Farenheit 451 is about (and he's been vocal about how people misinterpret it). He knows what he wanted to put in his books. But that does not imply that readers will get it or that in a different context the main interpretation can be different.

His point is valid though, TV turns people watching it into morons, at least the worldwide scientific consensus says so and said so for decades.




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