This is the point. This is your head. See it flying high above you?

[bookish_dragon]

Old, I know. But still worth boggling about. Add the irony about burning a book condemning the practice and I don't need any spinach for the coming month.

"There's Bible-burning in there, so it's bad." That was more or less the point of the book. It deals with censorship. It's about a society dealing with people thinking for themselves.

Books and the ideas therein are too important to burn en masse. You can't control people by forbidding them to read. or to think for themselves. (Ok, you can, I know. I read 1984 as well. But you shouldn't do it.)

Sheesh people! Think outside that skull of yours.

Kudos to the students who protested the burning.

Comments

[starsong24.livejournal.com]

How do you enforce 'nonody is to think for herself'? The person involved may well have highly individual thoughts and never say them.

But yeah. Book-burning is...often stupid. Particularly since sometimes you end up burning a document of immense historical value, thus depriving your descendents.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

I dunno. 1984 never answered that either. Dealt more with how to keep people from voicing their thoughts. So I guess that until we build giant Thoughtcontrol-machines, it'll be a moot point.