Ray Bradbury

From http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/08/ray-bradbury-enemy-of-the-state

“For Bradbury, it was the politicians who ‘have no romance in their hearts or dreams in their heads’ that ultimately kept America earthbound.”

(If a man has no romance or dreams, he is a cipher, a human form stumbling in the dark, entranced by illuminated signs, following directions flash-imprinted.)

Another: “’I think our country is in need of a revolution,’ Bradbury told the L.A. Times. “There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.’ He told Time a week later, ‘I don’t believe in government. I hate politics. I’m against it. And I hope that sometimes this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.’”

Bradbury also was “(a) curmudgeonly opponent of the Internet and its products …”

http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2012/06/ray_bradbury_saw_the_pc_lunacy_coming.html

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