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The Pipe Dreamer 0

Writing at the Tampa Bay Times, Roy Peter Clark suggests that Republicans’ current efforts to shut down the free market place of ideas may have unintended side effects (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.

I have read banned books — along with books that were deemed age inappropriate — from elementary school on. It’s important for you to know — and the book censors to understand — that I read Huckleberry Finn, Brave New World, The Grapes of Wrath, The Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita, The Bluest Eye not in spite of their controversial status, but because of it.

Methinks he is an optimist.

For every adventurous soul who would open a closed door, there are nine sheep who would knock once, then walk away, and twenty who are retweeting randos on Twitter and liking zombie bots on the Zuckerborg.

I am not sanguine.

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