Subject: ivory tower Digression of sorts . . .
From: zazie (zazie@raketnet.nl)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 04:15:01 GMT
Well, it's just that George Bush has been doing so many stupid egotistical
things lately, it kind of reflects on all of you.
And really, if there is ANYWHERE in America serious thought that relative
simple books like C.S. Lewis Narnia books are so "difficult" that anyone
who reads them is "in an ivory tower" yes, then I'm really wondering and
scared whether in general Americans are dumb. Ignorant, we knew that, with
a president who thinks that Belgium is the capital of Europe, what else can
we think? But outright stupidity on average, hmmm.
All those nukes with such dumb people ... somebody should write a novel
about that.
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I am an American and the thought of editing a classic work and changing it
from its original form apalls me. It is true that the desire for the
"buck"
is all too present in American society and maybe this form of censorship
could
only happen in the U.S. However, genaralizing about the intelligence of
America and its people is rather uncalled for I think especially given the
people on this list.
A prideful young American who still thinks there is reason to be so,
Levi
>===== Original Message From "zazie" <zazie@raketnet.nl> =====
>>It's an honest question: edit out what is considered "offensive" so that
>>more people have the opportunity to be exposed or sit up in your ivory
>>tower with said book intact and listen to more generations of uninformed
>>people try to tell you what the book is about?
>
>Is this because you live in America that talk of censoring is so easy?
>Wow, real wow, this is quite shocking! I'm not a christian anymore (i'm an
>atheist, but non-practising) but to take out religious parts of a book just
>to sell more books!?!?!
>Only in America, i think.
>A German writer (I think it was Bertold Brecht) once said about this, that
>the burning of books is the equivalent of burning people. This principle
>applies in part in this case, i think.
>On the thing about bigger audience vs. integrity, I fully agree with
>the argument that it wouldn't do any good. And that 'ivory tower'
>is not so high, in the case of CITR and Salnger, or the average
>American must be even more stupid than I thought. Please say it isn't so.
>
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