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easilyirritable

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Sep 26, 2005 21:46

Memetics at work:

Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies ( Read more... )

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starskin September 27 2005, 02:26:41 UTC

Every year I forget that A Wrinkle in Time was banned, and every year my mind is blown by this fact. That book is the reason that I love reading in the first place!

Also...A Light in The Attic was banned? Wha?

easilyirritable September 27 2005, 12:44:11 UTC

Yeah, I was shocked to find that out myself. A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books ever. Like you it was the first book I ever read that really got me into reading.

starskin September 27 2005, 15:57:29 UTC

Not to mention the fact that Madeline L'Engel's work all had strong spiritual/Christian overtones. I mean, one of the books features cherubim and seraphim. I can't understand what Fundamentalists would find offensive about these books. The fact that Mrs. Murray is both a mother and a scientist? Time travel? Unicorns?

Makes no sense.

_ex_cowboy September 27 2005, 03:05:23 UTC

i had a discussion with someone about the bizarre correlation that a lot of urban legends seem to be topical of right wing / conservative fears. or the fact that the right often uses made up or twisted stories to advance their cause (i.e. the fake "patriotic speeches" and such). it's because most of their ideas cannot be argued reasonably so they resort to underhanded tactics. obviously the left isn't immune to them either but it is interesting that things like satanic panic, blaming anything on rock music, witch hunting and the like are all associated with conserative / traditional beliefs.

the right in the political scheme (mccarthyism, nixon, rove) are rife with it as well.

easilyirritable September 27 2005, 13:11:35 UTC

That's so true. Sure, the left is prone to it as well, because it's human nature to exaggerate, but when your personal philosophies don't have a rational leg to stand up on, the only thing left is an appeal to emotion. Especially when the facts don't back you up.

lotusbeans September 27 2005, 03:15:10 UTC

I can't believe "How to Eat Fried Worms" is on that list! We had that read to us (aloud, in class) in 5th grade.

easilyirritable September 27 2005, 13:11:52 UTC

Your teacher was a subversive pinko commie bastard!

joanofarq September 27 2005, 03:40:59 UTC

I graduated from Kent State -- 1984. At that time there were still a lot of people around, in their thirties, who had been there on May 4, 1970. I became friends with a couple of those who had actually been wounded -- one in a wheelchair, paralyzed for life, a very unassuming guy; the other had been shot in the wrist and is now head of the Democratic Party in Barberton, Ohio!!!! (yeh, troublemakers all. . . . )

easilyirritable September 27 2005, 13:13:05 UTC

What, they haven't gone blind and stark raving mad from syphilis yet? ;)

ciaraxyerra September 27 2005, 03:43:54 UTC

i heard & believed some of the rumors that were going around in new orleans, but it worked in reverse on me: it made me MORE angry that someone wasn't stepping in to help those people, & instead just letting them rot away & go crazy.

"deenie" was one of my favorite books when i was a kid, because both me & deenie had scoliosis. but fuck "bridge to teribithia". that book should be banned. it gave me nightmares for years. (just kidding--no book should be banned. but you couldn't pay me to read it again.)

easilyirritable September 27 2005, 13:21:13 UTC

I refused to read Bridge to Teribithia as a kid. The kids in my class had read it in fourth grade, which I had skipped, and I heard all about the classrooms full of tears and how the story ended and everything. So I avoided that, as well as A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Old Yeller and Summer of the Monkeys.

i heard & believed some of the rumors that were going around in new orleans, but it worked in reverse on me: it made me MORE angry that someone wasn't stepping in to help those people, & instead just letting them rot away & go crazy.

For a while I wasn't sure. I thought it was plausible but only because I know how I feel when I haven't had anything to eat in a day and I'm hot and cranky. But then I thought about it more and realized that I don't even have the energy to walk around that much when I haven't eaten for a day, let alone four. But yeah, even if the stories were true I'd feel the same way. I am absolutely not down with the cold-hearted souls who think that its a sign of the inner savagery of poor black people in ( ... )