The parable and prophecy of the thoughtlessness and callousness of societies of the day tv and social media

451 degrees Fahrenheit (Tyg. oryg. Fahrenheit 451) is simply a 1953 anti-utopia fresh by Ray Bradbury. The book action takes place in a planet where reading books and critical reasoning are banned. This fresh was awarded the “Retro Hugo” award in the best fresh category in 2004..

The first movie adaptation premiered in 1966.

https://www.filmweb.pl/film/451+degrees+Fahrenheita-1966-1494

The 2002 Equilibrium movie was inspired by the game of the novel.

In 2018, the premiere of the fresh was tv adaptation directed by Ramin Bahrani, produced by HBO

The book's title means the temperature of 451 degrees Fahrenheit (233 °C), in which, according to the storyline, the paper self-fire begins. The experimental tests estimation this value, depending on the paper, between 424 and 475 °F (218 – 246 °C)

The planet that Bradbury created is simply a planet of the future, in which the United States becomes a large power, considered to be 1 of the strongest states and leading a mindless war against all the countries of the world, but there is no war in the United States itself. A advanced standard of living, as well as advanced medicine and technology, as well as houses built of non-combustible materials give the residents a sense of security.

In this world, all literature is forbidden: books must not be read or held. They are removed by specially trained firefighters (as a consequence of the spread of non-combustible homes they no longer gotta put out fires), and their books are burned. People are mostly manipulated by media showing even the top disasters and disasters in color. The value of the household has besides been shaken due to the fact that wives do not worry about their husbands, and children are treated as unnecessary burdens. Students in school only learn from films. They respond in peculiar “fun towns”, where the mirror office has been replaced by a glass break and cars and carousels – super fast cars. Adults devote their free time to an interactive tv programme “Family”, where they can play their own “role” without moving from home.

451 degrees Fahrenheit in intent was a book not so much directed against totalitarianism, but against tv as a tool of mass indoctrination. As Bradbury claimed, the novel's content was devoted primarily to "how tv destroys interest in reading literature" and "turned into morons." In Bradbury’s opinion, tv fills people with useless information without giving them the context

for: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/451_steps_Fahrenheit

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451 degrees of thoughtlessness

Seventy years ago, the planet saw a book he wanted right away, but it didn't burn. We are talking about the large anti-utopia fresh by Ray Bradbury "451 degrees Fahrenheit", which predicted the way that humanity would follow. This work can, and should, be called a warning, but has Bradbury been listened to?

Look around you. Can your children hear you? Or do they have an earpiece? Do husbands and wives hear you? Or are they staring at the screen? Who is the individual in this planet of truth, where the link leads to the link – and so indefinitely? There are social networking photos alternatively of real people. What became the celebrated tolerance? Minorities are expanding and demanding freedom and privileges. But this did not lead to equality – no, it led to a dictatorship of a number that first destroyed culture and then fundamentally average life.

Bradbury understood: the crisis of civilization will come from the crisis of culture. The method process far outweighs the moral improvement of society. Humanity is not moving towards a thriving complexity, but alternatively towards simplification. Bradbury was only incorrect about 1 thing, but he later improved: “The only crime worse than smoking books is not reading them.” You can inactive believe that we're all progressive, smart, and individual, but tell me why this is happening? full fall. This is simply a consequence of the confused coordinate strategy and the deficiency of holistic reasoning – what the reading gave.

The reading manifesto was late published in Ljubljana. The authors encourage us to keep and make deep reading skills. They are certain that reading shapes our reasoning and behaviour and thus our future. Finally, “war is what happens erstwhile language fails.” And he adds: only books give us freedom. Therefore, they are destroyed—to turn man into a slave, content with his captivity.

Bradbury fought specified a society. And we must fight against specified a society. This program is simply a tiny contribution to the common cause.

Written by Płaton Biesidin

For: https://t.me/pbesedinreal/4217

Appendix:

Ljubljana Manifesto on Deep Reading

19 October 2023 |

Four researchers active in reading and publishing, Anne Mangen from the University of Stavanger, Adrian van der Weel from the University of Leiden, Andre Schüller-Zwieerlein from the University of Regensburg and Miha Kovač from the University of Ljubljana, wrote a long text 2 years ago on why even in the digital age we gotta keep a higher level of literacy, namely the ability to read longer and complicated texts of books. Only in this way can we realize complex problems and solve complex problems in which the modern planet is sinking.

On the basis of this long text, a short text entitled Manifesto Lublanski was produced on the importance of reading on a higher level, which was presented in Ljubljana on 10 October 2023 at a press conference preceding the start of the Frankfurt Book Fair, during which Slovenia is this year's guest of honor. On the global stage, it was presented on 18 October 2023, the first day of the Book Fair in Frankfurt, in the presence of Ministers of Culture of Slovenia and Germany.

The Lublin Manifesto is an highly crucial document, as it advocates promotion of reading at a higher level. Only reading more demanding texts allows us to make analytical and critical thinking. specified reasoning is the key to maintaining a democratic society. The ability to read is threatened by the digital age, which puts emphasis on amusement and information causing strong emotional reactions, most frequently anger and even more hatred. The large amounts of data around us do not mean greater knowledge, but vice versa. The ability to combine information into cognition is seriously compromised, so reading should become sustainable and widely recognised as the key to a healthy democratic society," they wrote.

The Manifesto was supported by the German Academy of Languages and Poetry, the planet Publishers Association (IPA), the European Publishers Association (FEP), the global PEN, the global Federation of Young People Literature (IBBY), the global Associations for the Promotion of Reading (EUREAD) and the planet Association of Librarians (IFLA).

MANIFEST LUBLESIAN ON THE LEVEL

Reading at a higher level is our most powerful analytical and critical reasoning tool. Thanks to this reading, we train meta-knowledge and cognitive patience, increase knowing of concepts, strengthen empathy and learn to look at problems from different sides – all these are essential social skills of conscious citizens in modern democratic societies. We call on the signatories to the manifesto to recognise the lasting importance of reading at a higher level in the digital age.

Reversing the downward trend in literacy is 1 of the pressing challenges of modern society. If we want to participate in a democratic society as conscious citizens, we request reading skills and practices at a higher level than simple decoding of texts. Reading is not only the main way of individual development, the basis of lifelong learning and the basis of most of our exchange of information, but is besides the central dimension of social relations and social inclusion.

The era of fast-growing screen technologies has provided us with immense amounts of audio, visual and text content. The digital revolution has had many affirmative effects. For example, text content has become more accessible to disadvantaged people, so that the needs of readers with different skills and reading limitations can be better met. However, we must be careful that certain skills and ways of reading do not become a relic of the rapidly disappearing old news age. This is peculiarly actual for longer texts, specified as books, and for reading on a higher level, to which books are encouraged. The digital environment may let for more reading than always in history, but it besides creates many temptations to read superficially and dispersedly – or not even read at all. All this compromises reading on a higher level.

We so call for reflection on the function of reading at a higher level in the digital age. In an increasingly complex information environment, citizens must be able to separate reliable sources from unreliable and flexibly adapt their reading behaviour to different circumstances. Reading on a higher level is an exercise of attention and cognitive patience, which increases vocabulary and conceptual abilities and actively challenges readers to question their own prejudices. The ability to read at a higher level is peculiarly acute for longer texts specified as books. They teach us to test different interpretations, detect contradictions, prejudices and logic errors, and to make subtle and delicate links between texts and cultural backgrounds that we request to exchange human judgements and emotions.

Reading at a higher level is our most powerful analytical and strategical reasoning tool. Without this, we are not prepared to fight populist simplifications, conspiracy theories and disinformation, and consequently, we are more susceptible to manipulation. Nevertheless, education systems are increasingly focusing on the usage of multimodal media at the expense of a thorough engagement in textual information. Moreover, the general attitude towards efficiency makes the complexity of reading seen as a problem that can be solved through simplification alternatively than as a reflection of human complexity and an incentive for analytical and strategical thinking. Today's learning of reading and measuring besides focuses on basic functional and information skills. By doing so, 1 forgets the lifelong importance of reading at a higher level for critical thinking, which is simply a condition for a successful functioning democratic society.

We so call for the teaching and promotion of reading by measuring literacy and reading investigation to recognise the importance of reading at a higher level as a skill that importantly shapes life and society. Teaching and promoting reading must go beyond teaching children of school age basic functional and information skills and focus on the improvement of an individual throughout their lives, which is supported by reading at a higher level. The measurement of literacy must go beyond standard investigating and include qualitative and descriptive data to guarantee a detailed diagnosis of the state of reading at a higher level in modern societies. Reading investigation needs to grow its position to cover disciplines specified as information behaviour studies, information literacy teaching, media design, attention investigation and neuroscience, and make a systematic investigation programme that can reconcile different perspectives and destruct fragmentation.

The future of reading affects the future of our society. A democratic society based on a conscious consensus of many stakeholders can only win through resilient readers who will master reading at a higher level. Legislators in all areas must be aware of this. Margaret Atwood says: “If there are no young readers and writers, shortly there will be no elders. Reading and writing skills will die... and democracy with it."

*With the support of the global Association of Publishers (IPA), the German Academy of Language and Literature, the European Federation of Publishers (FEP), the Consortium of European Reading Promotion Organisations (EUREAD), the global PEN Association, the global Federation of Associations and Library Foundations (IFLA) and the global Federation of Youth Literature (IBBY).

for: https://pismen.si/ljubljanski-manifest-o-poglobljen-branch/

European Parliament
Information note from the Slovenian delegation

societies are facing fundamental changes due to the fact that digital technologies change the way we live, interact, work, learn and read. The social and cultural impact of the digitisation process on literacy skills and practices remains insufficiently explored. While digital technologies offer large possible for fresh forms of reading, fresh empirical studies show that the digital environment negatively affects reading, in peculiar reading long forms and reading with understanding

It is besides unclear whether the transition to digital media actually meets the promise to improve learning outcomes. fresh studies of various types indicate a decline in key competences and reading practices at a higher level, specified as critical and conscious reading, slow reading, non-strategic reading and long-form reading. Meanwhile, the current education policy is mostly based on the monocultural standardized investigating of basic literacy and the increasing usage of digital technologies.

One of the pillars of the Slovenian program as an honorary guest at the Frankfurt Book Fair was the Ljubljana Manifesto on Reading on the Higher Level. Manifesto emphasizes the importance of reading books in the digital age. It highlights the fact that reading education, evaluation, investigation and policy-making should focus more on reading practices at a higher level in both adults and children, in order to realize the improvement of literacy skills and practices in an era increasingly dependent on ubiquitous digital infrastructure.

The Manifesto does not argue the improvement of digital technologies, but warns that human society will be in a worse position if people abandon reading more complex texts. It underlines the life importance of reading at a higher level for critical thinking, which is simply a prerequisite for a successful democratic society.

Moreover, the future of reading affects the future of our societies. A democratic society, based on a conscious consensus of many stakeholders, can only win with resilient readers, well-oriented in reading at a higher level. Political decision-makers in all areas must be aware of this. The Minister of Education of the Republic of Slovenia so invites ministerial colleagues to support this crucial Manifesto by signing it.

for: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-14839-2023-INIT/en/pdf

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