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2001-10-05

As if protecting the children from dubious “harmful matter” wasn’t enough, even in this day, books are banned. Or at least tried to get banned. And here I thought that freedom of speech must be equal to all, no matter how awful the message is, or else it wouldn’t be freedom at all. Silly me.

Anyway. From the list of banned books — the words fill my mouth with a bad taste and I’ve only typed them so far — the following piece was found. It’s hilarious.

»Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki. Doubleday. Challenged at the Plymouth-Canton school system in Canton, Mich. (1987) because “this book details the teachings of the religion of Buddhism in such a way that the reader could very likely embrace its teachings and choose this as his religion.” The last thing we need are a bunch of peaceful Buddhists running around. The horror.«

Further more, the Narnia-books was on the list, which is bizarre to the tenth degree. The same goes for Ibsen where the goons of hazard motivated it by being offended by the feminist propaganda. And how anyone even could consider to add Ray Bradburys anti-censorship novel Fahrenheit 451 is beyond every ounce of sanity. It’s so far off and into the land of ironic stupidity that they would have to eat the map in order to not starve to death.

Just to really prove that they’re not dead and buried, Curve has three new interviews up. One at Cosmik Debris, which is cool. Another at Apple, because they use their s/h-ware when doing the sounds — good design so head over there as well. Lastly, the Virginmega.com interview that is too short and they can’t spell simple words such as fuck. Read the first two.

All though I can and will read long books at anytime, anywhere I can still have fun for hours with the Book-a-minute. There is something special with a site that can summary Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens with: “Five billion people almost DIE, and it is FUNNY.” Marvellous.