Opus 2026-329: Don’t You Remember?

I saw a recent announcement that a site was being reinstated.  I didn’t even know they had been banned.  Two days later I got nothing at their domain.

It is called book banning.  I will call it that in an attempt to get around the algorithms.  Not that I am important enough to be noticed.

The book banning has been going on under the radar for decades.  The servants of Satan by whatever name and rationale they chose to be called have been culling the book shelves of libraries ever since my children, now in their 40's ,were young and beginning to need things to read.  For us the timing was great.  For the rest of America it is a tragedy.

It came in the guise of Friends of the Library book sales.  Mixed in with the donated books were volumes from the shelves.  If you got there early you could find some real treasures.

Some well known series were replaced with updated versions.  We learned to check and see if what we were looking at was the original series or an edited edition.  One of the qualities of those was the removal of reference to the God of the Bible.  In the old series people went to church and prayed over meals.  Not happening in the new ones.

Think of popular series over the years that have mysteriously been cancelled.  Every once in awhile you see a video explaining where something went.  I remember watching the one about Zorro.  

Today we are self-censoring.  How many times have you read comments that have * instead of the middle letters of a word?  How many times have you heard the bleep of deleted words?  How often are videos and written work of certain people edited to say what they did not say?  We are doing half of the work for the book banners.  They can look innocent and say, “What did I do?”  As one video I watched said, “Make them censor you.”

I see this going on in places like classical literature, hymns and even in the Bible itself.  It may be time to stop worrying about turning the clock back.  It is time to take the clock in for repair so it will be right more than twice a day.

homo unius libri