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“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.”
Apr 23, 2026 07:27PM
Fahrenheit 451

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Audrey is on page 73 of 249
“Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”

So very haunting to re-read this book in the age of AI and techno-solutionism 🥲
Apr 22, 2026 07:39PM
Fahrenheit 451


Audrey
Audrey is on page 73 of 249
“Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought! . . .Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?”

So very haunting to re-read this book in the age of AI & techno-solutionism 🥲
Apr 22, 2026 07:33PM
Fahrenheit 451


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