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Since the last week we noted your suggestions and now continue in order.
This week we will try to understand
interesting book is that an old science fiction classic,
Fahrenheit 451, which is in the list of the most popular books.
Lots of things was said about this book,
you can see them on Youtube.
But today we will hit the high spots.
Although it is an old sci-fi book,
no one wanted to publish the book when appeared in 1950.
It is thought to be a fantastic way of thinking yet,
and then firstly it starts to be published in a in a sexuality magazine.
Playboy magazine. The interesting thing is; This book,
which is heard with this and similar magazines,
is once filmed. Later, it is being filmed again recently.
While trying to shed light on the lifestyles of people in 1950,
a fireman's story that ignites the book is told
and the book is said to give importance to science fiction.
It actually has a deep philosophy;
What saves us from the elements that lead us to mechanical life?
However, this philosophy will tell us that when we go between the lines,
it is not the technology or ignorance that will lead us to this mechanics,
but because people move away from values while passing into this lifestyle.
It is expressed that one reason for this divergence is religion.
And the writer says that sexuality can be lived more easily and freedom can be better,
this mechanical transition can be overcome more easy by people.
Therefore, again this week,
we will be touching the thin places that are tried to be
put into our children's mind.
The book begins with this page: "This is a warning book"
It tells us that what we have is valuable,
and that what we value sometimes isn't appreciated by us.
And we see in the book that;
The book explains the necessity of naturalizing the mechanical elements
that exist in the contrary of the natural one by means of a book,
and that the only truth of life is only a conflict.
Because, ultimately, the character of Montag
is a firefighter who serves as a civil servant,
and towards the end of the book,
this firefighter starts reading the books he has burned
earlier and improves himself with that reading.
So the book tells us a little bit;
If you want to change the world,
it tells us that it is easier for a man working
inside the state to do this change process,
and the man who is at the outside is already going to be stupid step by step.
But it is said that a mentality that can bring an factor
in the state back to life is the relationship with a young girl.
Therefore, between the lines,
it is a book that explains that the element that will activate the
mechanism within the state can be possible with the hands of young people.
”It was a pleasure to burn.
He wanted above all, like the old joke,
He wanted above all, like the old joke,
Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed
and driven back by flame.” says.
He means that; In other words, to destroy the mechanical writing,
to see all natural authors as almighty. and in this sense,
it means that religion is a reading.
Of course, you may not understand this from this words now.
We'll get a little better understanding when it comes to sacred books soon.
The author pays much care to odors.
So it is used in the communication method.
"They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on
the silvered pavement and there was
the faintest breath of fresh apricots
and strawberries in the air."
In fact, what is described here is a freshness rather than a smell.
He is trying to say that;
"While it is mentioned that something's freshness comes from its smell,
it carries with the wind, in other words, silent messengers.
So if something that comes to you is fresh,
if the inspiration that brings you to that freshness,
it gives a feeling of renewal, do not stop after it.
" Therefore, he calls out to today's man,
saying that "in the future,
you must return to yourself to put aside whatever will block you from freshness."
"A girl is mentioned at the age of seventeen.
Montag will tell about his relationship with his neighbor;
Her face, turned to him now,
was fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it.
It was not the hysterical light of electricity but what?
But the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle."
This 'milk crystal' actually tells us about a mother-to-be.
With the word 'constant light in it' tells about
the existence of a love in one's life style.
'Gently flattering light of the candle' reminds us
that a more comfortable sexual life will be relaxing.
Because in order to be featured in Playboy magazine,
he had to refer to some of these values.
Look, there are the following expressions that
a necessity of natural life is thinking less,
traveling a lot and doing crazy things and dreaming about this things:
"You think too many things," said Montag, uneasily.
"I rarely watch the 'parlor walls' or go to races or Fun Parks.
So I've lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess.
" Therefore, less thoughts and much
wandering can trigger crazy thoughts.
So the more young people turn to themselves,
the more easily they can rebel.
Look, a statement like this:
"There are too many of us, he thought.
There are billions of us and that's too many.
Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you.
Strangers come and cut your heart out.
Strangers come and take your blood.
Good God, who were those men?
I never saw them before in my life!"
In fact, what he mentions here as "privacy"
is the existence of a belief of faith which will be shaped according to one's own wishes,
so he mentions as "Good God".
Therefore, it is said that strangers affect it and leave it incomplete,
as man's own form of faith can be created by himself.
So again, Montag told us;
He talks about the person who needs to turn into
his inner world and form his faith and religion.
"He stood outside the talking house in the shadows,
thinking he might even tap on their door and whisper,
"Let me come in. I won't say anything.
I just want to listen. What is it you're saying?
This way of thinking; can other people meet
in the same place with the same idea?
It was a fiction and design about it.
Lets continue
In order to get out of this mechanical life,
now he will give us some elements with deeper
philosophies in the following pages of the book.
Mildred arose and began to move around the room,
picking things up and putting them down.
Beatty ignored her and continued "Speed up the film,
Montag, quick. Click? Pic? Look, Eye, Now,
Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace,
Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How,
Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh!
Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!
Digest digests, digestdigest-digests. Politics?
One column, two sentences, a headline!
It means "Stay away from politics because that politics
will encompass you with the adjectives
I have listed here with the effects of politics.
But you're on that politics.
" It also indicates the existence of an apolitical youth.
The book also talks about the population:
"Bigger the population, the more minorities.
Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers,
Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers,
Baptists, Unitarians, second generation Chinese,
Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen,
people from Oregon or Mexico."
In fact, he tells about the need to reduce population
and the importance of animal feeding instead of having children,
the name of the religion should be erased and the place
of the country you live in should be forgotten.
and continues as follows; "The bigger your market, Montag,
the less you handle controversy, remember that!"says
little girl and teaches Montag a serious truth.
He even goes so far;
"Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says,
but everyone made equal.
" He tells us that, in our own lives,
these laws and regulations should be diversified in our own essence.
Funerals are unhappy and pagan?
Eliminate them, too.
Five minutes after a person is dead he's on his way to the Big Flue,
the Incinerators serviced by helicopters all over the country.
Ten minutes after death a man's a speck of black dust.
Let's not quibble over individuals with memoriams.
Forget them. Burn them all, burn everything.
Fire is bright and fire is clean." says.
In fact, it is told that a life is not possible after death,
and that it should support its tastes in this world.
It goes so deep that less speech, less thinking,
and unnecessary sharing and interactions in our social life
tell us that we will separate people from each other;
"People talked too much. And they had time to think.
So they ran off with the porches.
And the gardens, too. Not many gardens any more to sit around in.
And look at the furniture.
No rocking chairs any more.
They're too comfortable.
Get people up and running around.
My uncle says . . . and . . . my
uncle . . . and . . . my uncle . . ." Her voice faded."
While it is tried to explain here that it's not supposed to be this way,
he also explains that people who prioritize social relations
cannot actually transform society and that the conditions required
for social transformation are much more different than that.
It tells us that people who are happy can make this change.
And the girl teaches Montag that he is not happy.
And tends to remind him happiness
with sexuality and says that: ""I am happy.
Mildred's mouth beamed.
"And proud of it." In other words,
emphasizes that happiness comes from pride and that you
should have a life and a title to be proud of.
It is are reminded that happiness can actually be achieved by
the human busyness in the world.
Look; "Professor Faber,
I have a rather odd question to ask.
How many copies of the Bible are left in this country?”
(you know, firefighters burn books)
-”I don't know what you're talking about!”
-”I want to know if there are any copies left at all.”
-”This is some sort of a trap! I can't talk to just anyone on the phone!”
-”How many copies of Shakespeare and Plato?”
-”None ! You know as well as I do. None!" “
With saying 'none', actually he is trying to tell
that we got into a situation that we no longer can read even
Shakespeare and Platon.
Not to mention about the Bible and other religions.
He explains this,
but his message to our consciousness is as follows:
Unless you read Shakespeare and Plato and understand them,
the stories of religion only give you an empty hope.
So you cannot understand religion unless you have finished
the things you need to finish previously.
They say the same thing today;
"To better understand the Qur'an, you need a good philosophy.
For a good philosophy, you need to finish them first
" Of course we will read, of course we will be aware,
but in order to understand the values in the book,
first we must clearly understand the requirements
of our religion and in this way we can put the books we read into the scale.
As long as we cannot weigh the contents of the book as
'right or wrong' and we absorb directly as it is,
the result is that we can encounter delirious
attitudes that today's youth has fallen.
"The subway fled past him, cream-tile, jet-black,
cream-tile, jetblack, numerals and darkness,
more darkness and the total adding itself. " says.
The book, which envisages slowdown,
tells the system in cream-colored tiles,  a dream in the dark.
He explains that breaking the system is possible by staying with your dreams.
You usually remember in the movies;
it is told that the places where people move from the dimension
of thought to the dimension of movement always at great speed;
the scene of going by train, or taking off.
It tells us that it is necessary to be fast and that it is necessary
to break from somewhere to think.
The point you need to break is religion.
And the following sentences are used against religion:
"It's been a long time. I'm not a religious man.
But it's been a long time." Faber turned the pages,
stopping here and there to read.
"It's as good as I remember.
Lord, how they've changed it- in our `parlors' these days.
Christ is one of the `family' now.
His own son the way we've dressed him up,
or is it dressed him down?
He's a regular peppermint stick now,
all sugar-crystal and saccharine when
he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial
products that every worshipper absolutely needs."
In other words,
while religion tells us that heaven and world life will come to an end,
(it is explained to us with the Christ,
because the book was written in Christian mathematics)
it can offer these candies to us but that is what mechanizes the human.
I pass the places where the quality and quantity comparisons are made,
there are heavy expressions.
Let's look at this one:
"I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten.
I put up with them when they come home
three days a month;
it's not bad at all.
You heave them into the 'parlor' and turn the switch.
It's like washing clothes;
stuff laundry in and slam the lid.
" Mrs. Bowles tittered.
"They'd just as soon kick as kiss me.
Thank God, I can kick back!"
Yes, the author actually tries to humiliate and tells that it is wrong,
but what he says in the background is this:
If you are going to do so, do not have children.
He says to people;
mechanical life will take you to this point.
Then stop having children, because the children
who will be born will bring you persecution at this point.
Nowadays, "Is it reasonable to have children in such a world?
The basis of this discourse was given to us by these novels in the past.
"Don't make the child you can't take care of.
Don't make children that you can't send to colleges,
good schools and provide good education.
" Well, we are not what makes the baby.
Isn't it Allah who created the child?
Of course people's intentions are a request at this point.
But having a child is not in the hands of human.
And `The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
And you yelled,
'This age thinks better of a gilded fool,
than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school!’ says.
It tells us that wisdom is possible by moving away from such beliefs,
and even moving away from home has the capacity to support you in this wisdom.
One of the things we encounter when we go to the end of the book
is again and naturally freedom.
And then one of the men looked up and saw him,
for the first or perhaps the seventh time, and a voice called to Montag:
('Seventh time' because seven is an important figure in many beliefs.)
" Montag stepped back into the shadows.
"It's all right," the voice said.
"You're welcome here
." Montag walked slowly toward the fire and the five old men sitting there
in dark blue denim pants and jackets and dark blue suits.
He did not know what to say to them.
"Sit down," said the man who seemed to be the leader of the small group.
"Have some coffee?"
Montag was now on the street.
The freedom area was on the streets.
and it is told here that with a worker mentality,
people on the streets could be drawn to the center of this movement.
“....former occupant of the Thomas Hardy chair at Cambridge
in the years before it became an Atomic Engineering School.
” says and pass on Professor West,
an ancient study, quite some years ago.
Reverend Padover here gave a few lectures
thirty years ago and lost his flock between one
Sunday and the next for his views
He's been bumming with us some time now.
Myself: I wrote a book called The Fingers in the Glove;
the Proper Relationship between the Individual and Society,
and here I am! Welcome, Montag!"
Of being special and atom engineering told as that solves
the meaning of matter in this level of consciousness.
It tells us that the reverend has solved mana with matter.
It is now clearly stated that as long as religion
has a scientific discourse, it can work.
In fact, he is told that "We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
" it is told that in the field of being, people can have a religion if they reveal the new.
The book continues in this way.
When we come to the end, Montag struggles like this:
“Look at the world out there, my God, my God,
look at it out there, outside me,
out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch
it is to put it where it's finally me,
where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day.
I get hold of it so it'll never run off.
I'll hold on to the world tight some day.
I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.” says.
He explains that the beginning of this will be possible with a life style outside of religion.
It doesn't matter even if the book says it is science fiction.
All the awards it has received support this view.
It was put before us as an innocent sci-fi novel.
We have stated that it is not very innocent.
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