"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

I've always laughed at the term "science fiction" (in a kind of mental way, not that I laugh out loud every time I hear it). There is something about it, that is not fictitious about it; and science, well, that is another story. I know, I know, fiction is something that does not have to do with our "reality", and our history; our peopled world, our current technological advances, (by the way, Fahrenheit 451 movie came out in the 60s and I smiled at the "wonderful" TV parlor wich was one of our modern plasma T.V.s. Very futuristic for the time it was made in), or maybe the things people do and the way people think... a thousand, a billion reasons. 

My "point" here, if I do have one of those, is that Fahrenheit could just as easy as to be an allegory. An allegory of what? Of our modern times, of our present, that is turning into past every second, every moment. There are always people who are against the system, people who want to just take things as they are, people who do not want or are afraid of THINKING, people who control everything, and people who come and give your life a change... any change, people who think they understand... People, people, people... Arabs, catholics, African-Americans, chinese, mexicans, short people, non-religious people... people, people, people... all so unique, all so different. 

     

In a way, all science fiction has to relate to "now", since topics treated everywhere have to do with our way of thinking, and these topics are discussed, exposed or wahtever by a thinking human being. (Unless there's an animal or plant that writes or paints, which would also be left to the interpretation of us human beings, so it's all the same, anyway). A man that discovers that his life is silly, absurd. The closest person to him, which was never that <linked> to him, the people that did not want others to fill their minds with knowledge so that ignorance would make them "H.a.p.p.y" (what a word in this world, so...). I cannot think of it as science fiction, because they have all the tools we have, the TVs, the incinerators, empty minds, non-empty minds, books... we are just technologically closer, or just like it. Science. Social Science? Technological Science? Fiction? Really? 

Tech is created to fulfill our "needs". Our needs to have what? An easier life? A h.a.p.p.i.e.r world? A less stressed world? A comformist world? Really? Sides. Well, human beings have to choose one, and satisfy their "neeeeeeds". 

Extra no. 1:

Aliens? Maybe the reason we have not "seen" them is because we insist on realting them to human characteristics. We believe what our eyes can see, even with "great" modern tech... Just a thought. 

Extra no. 2:

Montag's chase and sudden death in TV. Kind of reminded me of Osama Bin Laden. Sudden, fast, TV. 

You'll be reading this? Will someday internet be burnt? You know, maybe not a lot of people will mind reading this. It is l.o.n.g.

Words. Words. Words. Bleh.