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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector->The Two Fahrenheits
(Conspiracy Nation, 5/31/04) -- 451 degrees fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper burns. It is also the title of a novel by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.
Bradbury's novel was written fifty years ago. It is a science fiction novel. Typically, science fiction prognosticates a possible future.
An intriguing aspect of what Bradbury predicted fifty years ago is covered by local newspaper editor John Foreman. ("Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451' a little too familiar for comfort," Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, 5/30/04.) Foreman had re-read Bradbury's book recently, as part of a local library project, "C-U Reading," which encourages residents to read and discuss various books. Foreman was startled to find a few paragraphs in the book which were eerily prescient.
Most readers remember that Fahrenheit 451 deals with a government that declares books illegal and burns them. However what has been largely forgotten about Fahrenheit 451 is how the predicted ban on reading came to be. Foreman notices that in Fahrenheit 451, the people have no interest in reading. Instead, they are enthralled by "sports and entertainment." Fifty years ago, Bradbury foresaw a society "populated by people who walk about wearing earbuds that bombard them with nonstop electronic racket. They watch television programs from screens that cover entire walls of their homes and surround them with sound. The TV characters are reality..."
Foreman further notes how the government in Fahrenheit 451 is quite happy to discover its citizens addicted to a-muse-ments ("to muse" is to think; "to a-muse" is not to think.) "Bradbury's government finds this all quite convenient; it can do as it pleases while the citizenry is otherwise amused."
In "Ominous Signs" (5/26/04, www.shout.net/~bigred/Signs.htm), Conspiracy Nation predicted that, come Memorial Day, half the people in your town would suddenly disappear. This prediction of a Memorial Rapture seems indeed to have occurred. At least here in Champaign, Illinois, headquarters of Conspiracy Nation, the streets are empty and nothing is going on.
The idea of a "Rapture" is held by certain Christians. They believe that God will suddenly "beam up" the righteous just before Armageddon, to save them from suffering. "Beam me up," was the constant prayer of former congressman Jim Trafficant. But an ongoing Rapture may already have begun, unnoticed as such: to whit, the so-called "alien abduction" phenomena, where the "righteous" are routinely "beamed up" for brief periods. Are these people being gradually acclimatized for "The Big One," the biblical Day of Rapture?
"The Big One" is also the title of an under-noticed documentary by filmmaker Michael Moore. In "The Big One," Moore proposed that the name "United States" sounded too wimpy. Moore noticed the macho-sounding name, "Great Britain." For America to be perceived as being more awesome, Moore suggested changing the name from "United States" to "The Big One."
Under the subject of fahrenheits, besides Fahrenheit 451 there is also Moore's latest film, "Fahrenheit 9/11." Coincident in time with Disney Corporation's release of its hold on the film, George W. Bush fell off his bicycle in Texas. Also coincident was Attorney General Ashcroft's astoundingly sudden warning that America was soon going to be hit "hard" by "terrorists." But rather than presume conspiracy in the usual sense, might not a conspiracy of planets have been involved? Some astrology web sites have added a general horoscope feature, giving a daily horoscope not for a particular sign, but an overall forecast. What planetary configuration caused Disney to unleash "Fahrenheit 9/11," Bush to fall off his bicycle, and Ashcroft to unload a "hit hard" warning all roughly at the same time?
(Today's planetary conspiracy: "Red Alert. This Memorial Day in the USA could turn into a real shocker around the horn. The Moon entering passionate and willful Scorpio (12:09AM PDT) serves as a volatile emotional backdrop. Four planetary alignments kick up a psychic dust storm throughout humanity and you may be sent reeling into a tailspin." astrology.yahoo.com) Somebody call the Hopi Elders.
One last tidbit: In Moore's "psychic dust storm" movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," Attorney General Ashcroft reportedly performs a song he composed, "Let the Eagle Soar." There is a possibility that Ashcroft will earn songwriting royalties. ("Bowling for Fahrenheit," by Roger Ebert) Who knows? "Let the Eagle Soar" might even be a hit. Unless, that is, America is "hit hard" prior to release of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and we don't get to see the movie.
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