Re: banning CATCHER
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:10:29 -0700 (PDT)
Hello, all.
I would like to come out in defense of the reoccuring plan to ban CITR. It
is a dangerous book. Nevermind the languge; there's worse on prime-time tv.
In fact, it is dangerous because of its subtlety and underlying themes.
The same people who want to ban Salinger are the ones who find independant
thinking frightening. People shouldn't be put through the ringer of new
ideas and strange thoughts.
This is the same group that hated Wycliffe, because knowledge in the hands
of the public is.... unpredictable.
We need to support the idea of banning. Not banning per se, just the idea
of it. Do you think more than a handful of people would have read the
Bible's English trans. if the church hadn't fought it tooth-and-nail?
Thank god, (with a small g) for groups that directly affect my life due to
their close proximity to me, like Coloradans for Family Values. Groups like
this pointed my way as a youth towards books that I may have otherwise
neglected, thanks to their banning wish list.
The old saying "It takes all kinds" is so true: these bizarros work as a
near-perfect inverse barometer.
Thank you, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, et al., you freaks have shown me
the light, or at least where I should be looking for it.
Thor
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