Totalitarian censorship is still censorship.
More of the book is dedicated to showing how obsessed the characters are with other media and commodities than burning books, which is why I see "tv bad" as the driving theme of the novel. It definitely smells like the jumping off point for pretty much everything else in the novel too.
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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
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