Fearless Friday - Banned Book Week

[wordsrmylife]

After a weekend spent celebrating the book (Burlington Book Festival, 9/23-9/25), it's been odd to think about people saying no to books. But that's what banning books is. Censorship is also a form of bullying, because it's about applying power to control, or at least to try to control others. That's not what this country is about; that's what

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[rymrytr]

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In one of Ray Bradbury interviews, he indicated that the jist of Fharenhite 451 was not so much censorship, but how Television would cause people to drop away from "reading" and start to accept what they viewed, as the truth. Sort of a, "if they say it on TV, it must be true". (my thought: And of course, TV would be World Government controlled.)

I'd like to see an expansion of that idea now, with the internet and e-books. If they wanted to burn books now, how would they handle all the digital material? Not just the repositories like Librivox and Gutenberg; but all the downloaded material in millions and millions of computers, world wide...

Someday, tiny, tiny chips, containing thousands of books, imbedded in humans, pets, and ego-cached. What a search that would be!

Mandatory appearances at Government check points, that would scan the body for chips; satellites that searched us, without our knowledge; Black Market trade in chips that measure 1 mm by 1 mm. Just drop them into your spinal brain stem connection and the books appear, page by page, in your mind...
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[wordsrmylife]

That's a fascinating thought, especially since we're so close to it. At least, for me, once I have read a book that strikes me deeply, it is in my mind, and remains there, even when I return the printed book to the library or my shelf.