Chilling...

[rowangolightly]

I clicked on this Netscape headline during lunch and damnear got indigestion:

http://politics.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/08/06/the-ten-most-harmful-books-of-the-19th-and-20th-century/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.humanevents.com%2Farticle.php%3Fid%3D7591&frame=true

Turns out it's on this site called 'Online Human Events' published by the 'National Conservative Weekly'. Makes for some intersting reading. But I am gonna do my usual "shake my head, ignore the scary and put my energy where it'll actually do some good."

::shakes head::

Guess we shouldn't read anything that might inform us about other ways of thinking, believing or acting even if we don't subscribe to those ideas, huh? Gosh, we might learn something or develop analytical skills or personal discernment or something.

Some of these I've read, some of them I haven't. Wish I'd read all of them.

Ok, that's my, what, second political post ever? Done. Now I'm going back to painting and put on some music for mental floss...want my good mood back.

Comments

[blindgeoff.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder though, would the world have been a better place without Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, Mao's 'Little Book,' and The Communist Manifesto?

The notion that Keynes belongs in the same collection though? Or Kinsey? Margaret Mead, for Ghod's sake!?

As for Origin of Species, I invite any and all critics of evolution to consider the following: it is the foundation stone of biology. They should all feel free to eschew these heretical teachings and all they have made possible! Go back to your bloodletting, your childbed fever, and your 'miasmas.' Leave real medical treatment for the rest of us!

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Well, I for one, firmly believe that any society, any good society can stand up to any Idea...think on it, consider it, examine it...

Any idea, like power or like any weapon, is not dangerous in and of itself. It all depends on how it is used.

Fabulous icon, BTW...