Amerika

Every bookstore now has a display of “banned books” that are not, in fact, banned anywhere, but have been merely controversial generally because they preach Leftist propaganda. Sure, they throw in Brave New World, but otherwise, the banned books are Democrat talking points.

You never see the big bookstores or the people wearing banned books t-shirts mentioning The Camp of the Saints, The Turner Diaries, The Blank Slate, The Bell Curve, or even historically-important censorship trials related to books like Ulysses and Naked Lunch.

Instead, the banned books crowd seems to focus only on Leftist books that someone somewhere objected to, so that you can feel self-righteous for supporting books that are politically correct. You get to be an edgy rebel while being an obedient conformist and compromising!

What they like to gloss over is that instead of censoring realist books, libraries simply refuse to buy them. They lose them if they are bought. They sell them off as outdated. As a last resort, they can write them off as damaged. The books stay off the shelves.

Many libraries have relatively few books now because they had to make room for giant computer centers used mostly by the homeless to surf Facebook. This gave the librarians an excuse to sell off or destroy all those old gods-of-the-copybook-headings books and replace them with diversity propaganda.

It seems that everything bad in society arises from jobs. Jobs create a rebellion-submission axis in the worker, who succeeds by compromise, but inevitably both resents his employer and is dependent on that employer, creating a mutual co-dependency that is psychologically unhealthy.

In the same way, the banned books people are both rebels and conformists, which allows them to compromise with others on a libertarian ideal: do not ban any books. They cross their fingers as they say this, knowing that with Leftists in control, any actually challenging books will never make it to the shelves.

Tags: antiwork, banned books, censorship, jobs