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Saturday, October 21, 2017

The War on The Reading Life




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All terrorist groups, all dictators, all so called populists from the start of recorded history have waged a war on those of us in the reading life.  You can see this in Ancient Greece with the execution of Socrates, the burning of extensive writings in the Philippines in the 1500s as they were written in an unfamiliar to the Spanish script thus destroying for ever who knows what wisdom and history, to the greatest war on us of all, The Holocaust.  First they burned the books, then millions of their readers.


“I love the poorly educated”.  45th USA president

“Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’ I reach for my gun” - Joseph Goebbels
Mel u
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4 comments:

  1. MudpuddleOctober 21, 2017 at 11:49 AM

    glad you decided to post it; it needs to be said occasionally... no matter what the pov, someone is going to hate it, anyhow.... quiet, non-judgmental, contemplation is a disappearing commodity in the present world...

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  2. FredOctober 22, 2017 at 12:23 AM

    Why am I not surprised he would say something like that?

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  3. Buried In PrintOctober 24, 2017 at 5:13 AM

    Reading can be an act of resistance.

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  4. Mel uOctober 26, 2017 at 5:25 PM

    Other horrible 20th century examples are the millions who died in China under Mao, just having a book could get you labelled an enemy of the people and the devastation under Pot Pal in Cambodia

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