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The written word was a revolutionary moment in the development of humanity. The technology of creating a method by which ideas and images could be recorded for posterity changed the societies that developed the technology giving them a distinct advantage over those with only an oral tradition.

Writing and books date back thousands of years and the need for some such as governments, religion and individuals to limit the abilities of others to access information began at virtually the same moment. The act of banning censoring, in some cases even the burning of books is abhorrent to most of us, yet  over the past few decades the incidence of censorship at a every level globally has increased, from assaults on the local or school libraries, to a resistance by government to make information available to citizen, to efforts by religious organizations to control what their followers will believe.

Americans believe the First Amendment to the Constitution protects them and guarantees access defined as freedom of speech and the prohibition of the government to impede the freedom of the press or the right to speak by the ordinary citizen. While the First Amendment is powerful, it has many weaknesses exploited by some over the years. Fortunately truth wins out almost all the time but there is a price.

In our digital society the ability to control information and the written word is a two edge sword. While information finds a way to become widespread, we often do not know the context it comes to us in.

Our case study takes us back to a time when the written word was delivered in a simple, straight forward manner printed in books, newspapers, pamphlets and the like. But what of an alternate Universe in which the written word and it’s medium of transmission is illegal. Information is disseminated only through electronic media. The temperature at which paper burns is 451 F the title of our film. Some of you may have read the original novel written by the noted writer Ray Bradbury in high school. Even so, it’s worth a revisit as a film from 1966. A dystopian look at world in which books and reading are banned, it is a cautionary tale of an effort to control thought and society in an authoritarian world.

500 word essay examining the prospect of a world in which information is limited and at best trivial. I have linked 2 film adaptations, the first a recent HBO offering which if you do not access to, will need to pay. The second is the original version directed by Franois Truffant, starring  Oskar Werner and Julie Christie. You may want to compare the two and see how the story has aged and been reinterpreted. If you like, you can write a comparison or just discuss one version of the film.
https://youtu.be/1n7Q_Uh7J-0
https://archive.org/details/fahrenheit-451-1966-696p

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