Wednesday, August 31, 2022

BANNING BOOKS

 






Two Republicans in Virginia filed a lawsuit to prevent Barnes and Noble bookstores from selling two books they consider not age-appropriate for children.

Fahrenheit 451 should be taught in high school and again in college.  Written in 1951, the story supposedly takes place in 2022.  Though the author missed with his technology prognostications about the future; his prediction about burning (banning) books, now seventy-one years later, is still relevant.  


the Ol'Buzzard


3 comments:

COMMENT: Ben Franklin said, "I imagine a man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false."