Those who seek to control 🧠 the minds of a society believe they must first rip out the heart and ❤️🔥 burn it at 451 degrees.
🔥📚 Ray Bradbury’s book burning dystopia seems closer to fulfillment today than at any moment I can recall in my lifetime. 🧑🚒 In his novel Fahrenheit 451, firemen start fires rather than extinguish them.
In our own reality, we turn to our public leaders to solve our problems, also known as 🧯putting out fires.
🤴But these leaders have become so twisted in the past couple years that they’re 🪵 starting fires, stirring up old prejudices, inciting book bans. 🙅♀️🙅♂️
What these leaders and lackeys don’t know is that they can’t extinguish the human imagination. 💭 They may try to keep it from escaping onto pages and screens, but they can’t keep our minds and hearts from dreaming. 🤔
So dream on, write what you will, ✍️ and carry a fire extinguisher. ✊
Originally posted on my LinkedIn profile where I’ve started networking as I start my freelance writing business. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to connect professionally on LinkedIn.
Travis Poling, Freelance Writer 
The Tennessee Three are another example of an ignited fire. A good thing about fires is that they can draw a crowd.
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And the Tennessee fire was also ignited by conservatives seeking to silence the voices of the marginalized.
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