Was America Great before Guttenburg?

If we're going to live in a divided country, it seems like we ought to at least be clear about it, so people know what their neighbors are all about before they buy houses and don't find themselves inadvertently living in Gilead.

Check out some of the titles of banned books here. Atwood aside, because its so topical that it makes sense, stuff like to To Kill a Mockingbird, Peter Pan, and Lord of the Flies just floors me.

https://www.newsweek.com/handmaids-tale-girls-who-code-other-books-banned-us-1745890

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NorthernBear · 51-55, M

“I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer [and] Huck Finn for adults exclusively, [and] it always [distresses] me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, [and] to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.”

-- Mark Twain, on the banning of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Its really only symbolic.. So many Americans manage to learn nothing and remain ignorant with all the books still on the shelves..😷

MistyCee

@whowasthatmaskedman That's a good point.

Quetzalcoatlus · 46-50, M

Those damn learnin books are the devil!!!!

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@Quetzalcoatlus the (Koran, Bible, Torah) is the only book you’ll ever need. And you don’t read it , you memorize it! Lol

SW-User

they can't ban the internet, school is a slanted view of the world, and America was only ever great before the advent of large sailing vessels. still... it's not a good sign of the times

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

Printing press happened way before America happened .

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AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@MistyCee not following you. Sounds like you’re trying to make a reference or inference that’s just going over my head . But Gutenberg was before Colombus.

MistyCee

@AthrillatheHunt Yup. And near as I can tell, the America that Trumpists are trying bring back also predates the Ten Commandments.

Slade · 56-60, M

@MistyCee 🙄 tiresome fool

Wiseacre · F

No, it was the Wild West!

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