https://padlet.com/abby_davey/keknpsfl9hp5 REFLECT ON - the dynamics of the text, surprises, tensions and the connections you make to other works (in and out of the medium/genre), to history, to oneself, to the artist’s other works or personal life. en-us 2017-03-13 06:35:32 UTC 2017-03-22 06:59:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png https://padlet.com/abby_davey/keknpsfl9hp5/wish/161717843 * In regards to Bradbury’s prediction of future society, the book was simultaneously so familiar and relatable while also having moments that are very foreign too me. 
* This particularly relates to the move from books to technology and media. Less and less people read books because we have become used to fast access to information. The news has become click baiting headlines that you read while scrolling through Facebook, even our comprehension while reading has decreased as we are used to skim reading, condensing the information into short bursts. When watching a commercial movie, every second shows a new camera angle never stopping to linger, constantly stimulating the viewer. When looking at older movies I find myself getting bored watching a panning shot of a beautiful countryside, I want more information at a faster rate. A quote from Bradbury describes this as being “stuffed with”  meaningless “factoids” causing a “growing lack of attention” There are quotes in the book referring directly to this. One of the most confronting is when Beatty describes the initial decline to a de-intellectualised society. He discusses the “impatience” that causes for books to become “condensations. Digests. Tabloids.” (pg 52) This impatience and constant need for stimulus is evident in Mildred who kicks a book complaining, “Books aren’t people. You read and I look around, but there isn’t anybody!” 
* There is direct reference to my earlier point about film, Beatty says “classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows.” 
* So much information about current affairs comes to me in its most condensed, simplest form. Beatty describes this saying, “Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline!” (pg 52) 
* I see how much the media and film can manipulate people into adopting certain viewpoints. A clear example is how advertising uses the peripheral route of persuasion to make people buy products. They use celebrities, bright colours, stimulating sounds and music so that “It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest”
* Beatty’s monologue also discusses how the increasing need to not “step on the toes” of minorities, causing a restriction of free speech and self expression. People must censor themselves to the extent that in some cases debate is inappropriate as it leads to controversy. This does not completely apply to our society, where we possess and fight for free speech but I see inklings of it when people are torn down for being offensive regardless of what they say.]]> 2017-03-22 06:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/abby_davey/keknpsfl9hp5/wish/161717843