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

[sometimeslibby.livejournal.com]

You know what is absolutely fabulous about that list? I read #1 last fall for Russian history. (Also 3, 6, and 10..) I read 98% of #2 this past spring when I took Hitler and Nazi Germany. #7 I read in the spring as well, for Women's history. So! Because of my classes and that list, I would undoubtly be qualified as a commie nazi dyke. Whoo! (And we won't talk about the research projects involving pulling stories of off al jazeera. Then we could add terrorist to the list or something.)

And most of the rest of those books, along with just about every book listed in my "100 Banned Books" book, I've read just because I felt like it. Damn. Must be a scary liberal nut too, reading books like that.

Whee. In other words: That's the best list ever!

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

*giiggle* Yeah, that's kinda what I thought, too.

Hurray for being a scandal!