Book Burning

[smokingboot]

There are many other commentaries on this issue to be found on the net, but I chose this one because it shows that Alabama is not the land of Carnies. I thank Larians for mentioning this issue to me last night.

http://prorev.com/2004/12/alabama-lawmaker-wants-to-ban-books.htm

This shouldn't bother me - I am neither gay nor a christian - but I do find it amazing. After the nazis, the inquisition, the killing of Hypatia, the torture of Galileo, and endless crimes against the development of mankind's intellect, some troglodyte still thinks that the answer to our problems is just to make it impossible to read.

Apparently Bush and this Allen person have been in contact (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1369643,00.html), because the people need protecting. From what? Does anyone really think that Brideshead Revisited is going to lure some innocent towards a life of teddy bear buggery and horrible scarves? And what about dear old Shakey with his dubious sonnets and his endless repeating of transvestite jokes? Then there's Sappho from Lesbos, damning her island to cheap jokes throughout the ages with her filthy doings. A pity one can't trace the history of poetry without bumping into her at the root. Root, fnarr-fnarr!

The problem with writing is that people keep acting as though literature and art and music and drama have some function; to entertain, to teach perhaps, to reveal, to inspire, to relax... What fools! Let no-one tell you that understanding the human condition is the point.It's a ruse to divert you from your true job, which is to control other people's decisions re their genitals, and live a miserable, preferably silent, seedy existence if it transpires that god hates you enough to make you a faggot. Remember it's all right to obsess on orifices as long as they disgust you, so for god's sake, stop reading and start hating yourself.

Heer's to reedin' n ritin, n countin n lernin n makin choyses.

Here's to wisdom and freedom, love and genius. May no controller wannabee ever deny you yours.

Comments

[bad-moon-rising.livejournal.com]

Now if they were burning the latest Jeffrey Archer(insert crap author) I might just find a touch of sympathy.I think censorship annoys me more than most things. Telling people how to act is one thing telling them how to think goes beyong what even a right winger like me will accept.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

There isn't even the attempt to teach howto deduce, methods of analysis, attempts at objectivity, verification of source material. Instead there's a set of trained responses appropriate for easy control or we churn out inept pseudo-philosophers with ever decreasing circles of sophistry as reference points.

Mmmm...Jeffrey roasting on an open fire...I feel myself coming over to the dark side;-)

Whoops...

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

to any real philosophers out there, you know I don't mean you!