When I was a child, nature itself seemed to have banned me from reading, as I have a form of visual dyslexia. I see the world, as I learnt, differently. I was lucky in both the means of my parents and the knowledge of my teachers that I was diagnosed early on, and after years of tests, special optics and practice I could translate the pages I saw into something meaningful.
Once this natural obstacle had been circumvented, I devoured anything and everything that was within reach. I can still be confusing when I type. It takes, still, some real trial and error to make what I want to say apparent to all, modern tools make it easier, especially the mystery of punctuation. I do apologize that some of my replies are very short and may have dual/unforeseen meanings.
Anyway, enough of that, I’ve been through it before, to get to the point.
Totalitarians go to policy has been to try and subvert culture to their will, I don’t know about you, but this brings out my left wing libertarian streak.
It is not 1933, banning or even burning books is a futile experiment, in fact the banned books are readily available 24/7 and as a result will only become more widely read. Ah, how the young just love something illicit, ask any parent. Contrarianism is quite common/popular in the teenage years.
I can't believe they think this banning will work in 2023, how utterly absurd what with the innertubes n’all.
I think it will only encourage them to be read.
Just a thought.
What set this off?
Margaret Atwood on being banned in Virginia,