The Green Bullet

Have you ever read Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451? It's a monumental American novel about what would happen in a world of censorship - a world where people become complacent about learning and finding knowledge beyond their everyday, boring lives. Some of the characters in the book, instead of reading books, simply watch giant TVs and listen constantly to a "green bullet" that is jammed in their ears and incessantly squeals and runs advertisements and things. You can imagine my horror when I came across these.

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Are you as concerned as I am? (A pair of these are $250, by the way. How many culturally enriching books could you buy with that much money?)