Thank you National Geographic for making me feel amazed, scared,
and incompetant all at the same time. This show "How to Survive the
End of the World" is explaining how the Earth is continuing to drift away
from the sun, increasing temperature changes that will hurt us inevitably.
So basically, the global temperature is dropping by two degrees, which means
our neighborhood temperatures can be a twenty degree difference, and several
years from now that will create extreme changes in the environment
that we may not be able to survive, peacefully.
This totally had me thinking about a distopian society, and then the book
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I really enjoyed this book. Something oddly
intriguing and eerily believable. I admired Guy Montag's character. Once
conforming to society, burning books first hand as his job, you would think
this guy has no hope, but I love it when there's a glimmer of hope in anything,
and in this case, Guy Montag. It's hard to go against society or the mass
majority, but he was curious with a conscience. Plus one for Montag when
he stands up to his boss, though burning Beatty seemed a bit harsh
and ironic.
Tangent party in this post. Conformity reminded me of this video I came
across a couple years ago I found particularly funny.
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