I was thinking of the part where it begins to sink all the way in just how desperate the people of that town actually were. And I keep thinking, are we in some way, at some point, nearing that point where we are seeing the literal and figurative burning down of our societal freedoms and the torching of any historical references and evidence of society having been any different? And I started recalling the last time that I taught that book as a classroom text
Edana Celeste
@SheGoddess · 0:51
So, yeah, I feel like it is happening and it's a kind of scary reality to see where we will be in ten years with this next set of children coming out of school learning differently depending on the Internet and AI and things that answer their problems. Like, Google was the start and then it just went crazy down
phil spade
@Phil · 3:20
And if you really boiled it down, it was these books are infiltrating our kids young's minds, and we need to really have a lot more control over these books. And that's where I saw one of the things that I think is moving us down this road. The other is a little bit more abstract. It's the cable news networks. And I stopped watching the cable news networks years ago, find that I'm much happier in not doing so
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Trudi Perkins
@TruTornado · 1:25
Hi, Edana. This is Dr. Trudy. Thank you for responding to my swellcast. I really could appreciate what you were saying about how this is a scary situation, especially for parents that have children that are attending schools and will be faced with being in classrooms where a lot of this the brunt of a lot of these changes are going to be taking place. I appreciate what you said, and one thing that really stood out the most was you're speaking about how no one really reads
Trudi Perkins
@TruTornado · 4:00
But actual teaching of critical race theory was not something that was taught outside of the college and university levels. So yes, they were successful in politicizing that theory and spreading a lot of mistruths and doing a lot of posturing around that, as you mentioned. And then the second thing that I thought was very poignant that you brought out was Bradbury's positioning and starting to really do that literary analysis and wonder what was the author's intention?