Reply #79: well, we're looking at it... [View All]

[ashmanonar]

ray bradbury had the right idea when he wrote fahrenheit 451...

the real problem is that your sarcasm here is only partially sarcastic, as the right wing would gladly ban books or music that actually made you think, or feel...the bible-thumpers in the past HAVE done this, banning such books as huck finn...burning books, banning them for the sake of them being thoughtful and provocative...

i only hope that we won't have to resort to the methods used by the group of men in the end of F 451...(memorizing pieces of literature, to keep the knowledge alive...), i'd much rather keep literature the way it is, and take the right wing out of power...as a bibliophile myself, the thought of burning books is abhorrent...

(it's sad, really...the literature that portrays apocalyptic cultures or totalitarian cultures always seems to be despairing, rather than hopeful...probably best not to dwell on such thoughts...must be hopeful!)