My experience with book burning
Not all ideas need to be spread any further.
I already know what you’re thinking: this is cancel culture gone mad. We should all be able to agree that book burning is bad. Nazis burned books. Nazis are bad. Let’s not get distracted by the fact that a frightening number of our neighbours apparently can’t even agree on that “Nazis are bad” part, and focus on the book burning bit. Even the politicians quite happy to court the white supremacist vote seem to be able to get outraged about book burning. It is the implied core of the straw man argument about cancel culture that has them constantly infuriated, after all, even if they aren’t accusing the left of literally heaving Dr Seuss onto bonfires. Which might seem awkward after they’ve made such a big deal out of publicly burning their NFL merchandise and Keurig machines, and some on the right have even burned Harry Potter books, but they won’t let a little irony get in the way of their furious culture warmongering. Book burning is an easy way to depict the bad guy in a movie as obviously evil. What sort of monster makes a case for book burning?
There’s something deeply sacred about books. They can transport your consciousness into the mind of another person, real or otherwise, and doing so improves your ability to empathize with other human beings and can make you a better person. Books…
