[ via Librarian.net ] I could not imagine living in Fairfax County, Virginia given that the adult population with children seem bent on banning, and censoring their way to a dictatorship of the mediocre.
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. — Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Nope, can’t let the kids read hard truths like that.
There’s so much to laugh-at/rail-against/shake-your-head-in-pity on this site. For instance, they engage in cargo-cult statistics, determining the toxicity of a book by the number of ‘fcsks’, ‘boobs’, and ‘bullets’.
A crowd around the litter was howling triumphantly. “Quant Suff!” they shouted. A woman’s chorus began an excited bleating:
‘Ammoninum bromide gr. 1 1/2
Potassium bromide gr. 3
Sodium bromide gr. 2
Citric acid quant. suff’
‘Quant Suff!’ The Scientific People roared. ‘Quant Suff!’
Foyle fainted.
— The Scientific People from Alfred Bester’s Tiger! Tiger! found measurements they can parrot. PABBIS’ methods must be just as sound.
Another howler is their assertation that sending the kids to private school will protect them from boobs and bullets in their reading. You send your kids to private school because the faculty is the best money can buy. Do you really think they would let you second guess them?
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