Morning, CoSo! Happy Monday. 💫
Today's #Newsletter draws on a lifetime's experience with literary censorship to contextualize the latest crisis this weekend, over announced changes to Roald Dahl's texts.
You know how Marshall McLuhan said the medium is the message?
Better said these days - the outrage is the point.
Watch carefully for how these debates reduce our range of options - and ask yourself whom or what they serve.
Is it "us"?
#Books #Literature #Publishing
https://mlclark.substack.com/p/neoliberalism-neofascism-and-other
@MLClark
I think this is excellent, thanks.
Want to emphasize the "parents" option.
I too was advised against a book by a school librarian.
I thought it looked cool, she thought it was "over my head".
My parents didn't know what it was but they immediately got me that book.
It was a book-shaped case of maps.
Takes a village to raise kids, sure. My parents had a certain information philosophy others don't; right or wrong it was their decision.