Hollyweird is the worst offender. I can't watch their movies any more. All they want to do is to mess with our minds and get us to think like they do, which is pretty corrupt.
I liked the Fred Astaire movies, singing, dancing, funny, romantic, but also corny.
I love Mark Twain's works and I don't understand why people get offended when Tom says Jim is his nigger. He was just speaking in the common language of the time and was telling people who were searching for a runaway slave that Jim is his slave and so he is not the runaway you are looking for.
I do not try to offend, but if the truth needs to be told sometimes it hurts. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. Telling someone what they want to hear is lying and always ends up causing problems. e.g. "You look good in that dress" may have been better to say "I think the other one suits you best"
When someone asks you if they are getting fat you can always tell them to check the scales and see what it says. Then they can look up a body height / weight scale to see where they land, but if they don't want to muck around you can just be honest and say, "I think you may have gained a few pounds in the last 20 years.
"...while it caters to a minority of people who are afraid to be offended, or to see, hear or read anything they don‘t want to". Many of the 'big' publishing houses now hire 'sensitivity readers' to ensure that anything that is being published is sifted to be least offensive, most inclusive, and thus incredibly boring and unreal.
As to your question, 'what are you going to do about it?' - we fill our house with literature, classic and modern; we have 17 bookshelves that line our walls. When I stroll through used bookshops I pick up copies of authors who have fallen into disfavour in the new moral purge to ensure that my children will have copies of these books to take along into their homes once they move out. Digital copies of books can be altered or deleted; physical books remain.
We homeschool and thus have the added freedom of reading and enjoying classic literature and art without censorship.
As Ray Bradbury stated in Fahrenheit 451:
"The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain-porridge unleavened literature licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme".
Hollyweird is the worst offender. I can't watch their movies any more. All they want to do is to mess with our minds and get us to think like they do, which is pretty corrupt.
I liked the Fred Astaire movies, singing, dancing, funny, romantic, but also corny.
I love Mark Twain's works and I don't understand why people get offended when Tom says Jim is his nigger. He was just speaking in the common language of the time and was telling people who were searching for a runaway slave that Jim is his slave and so he is not the runaway you are looking for.
I do not try to offend, but if the truth needs to be told sometimes it hurts. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. Telling someone what they want to hear is lying and always ends up causing problems. e.g. "You look good in that dress" may have been better to say "I think the other one suits you best"
When someone asks you if they are getting fat you can always tell them to check the scales and see what it says. Then they can look up a body height / weight scale to see where they land, but if they don't want to muck around you can just be honest and say, "I think you may have gained a few pounds in the last 20 years.
GREAT READ! thanks.
"...while it caters to a minority of people who are afraid to be offended, or to see, hear or read anything they don‘t want to". Many of the 'big' publishing houses now hire 'sensitivity readers' to ensure that anything that is being published is sifted to be least offensive, most inclusive, and thus incredibly boring and unreal.
As to your question, 'what are you going to do about it?' - we fill our house with literature, classic and modern; we have 17 bookshelves that line our walls. When I stroll through used bookshops I pick up copies of authors who have fallen into disfavour in the new moral purge to ensure that my children will have copies of these books to take along into their homes once they move out. Digital copies of books can be altered or deleted; physical books remain.
We homeschool and thus have the added freedom of reading and enjoying classic literature and art without censorship.
As Ray Bradbury stated in Fahrenheit 451:
"The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain-porridge unleavened literature licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme".
Excellent, albeit disturbing, essay Collette. But I guess we need a little shaking up and to be disturbed.