Art and Culture # 92: Banned Books Week September 18th to 24th, 2022
-For the Uncensored!
What honestly makes books the ultimate release is that it’s not hurting anyone. Unless you talk to Christain Right “Jehovah Witnesses” who think that Harry Potter is a gateway to Satanic Thinking. Or when Fanatical Muslims thought it was a good idea to burn Salman Rushdie’s the Satanic Verses in 1989, thus leading shitbag Ayatollah Kohmeni to order a fatwah against the author, himself. There’s no end to the spectrum of artistic measures that have offended their way through libraries. Teaching children about sexuality, when the book is clearly aimed for adults, has always been controversial, not just in recent memory. The idea of pornography and art is often like mixing water and oil together. But it does vary from reader to reader. But Censorship lies at the heart of banned books, no matter what political or business seems to find offensive.
Banned books, such as Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses,” Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho,” George Orwell’s “1984,” Chuch Palahniuk’s “Fight Club,” Lewis Carrol’s “Alice in Wonderland,” JRR Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” Nikoz Kazantkis’s “The Last Temptation of Christ,” Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” The Anarchists Cookbook, Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code,” Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series, "Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze,” Stephen King’s “Cujo,” “Carrie,” “The Dead Zone,” and “Christine” are among the few that make the top tier list of banned books across the world. Offense is often a sticky and incomprehensive logic when books are involved. It depends on the context involved, but banned books also help create a conversation, too. And can help make an author rich, too. It’s an honor but also a curse, if people do not read or buy the book, either.
Books, to me, are the epicenter of high and low art, because it takes the will to commit and put your eyes to another’s vision. Like a video game, you live in that creator’s vision, except with words, and what visual portraits the author can achieve. Even if you might find it detestable. To ban books takes a special kind of asshole. But the conversation around each book depends on person to person, library to library. It’s not in my best area to judge or hold something accountable for “bad taste” because I don’t share many opinions regarding Censorship as good to anyone.
Censor someone and you will become censored yourself. Debate is what creates a conversation regarding what should be censored or not, because once something is banned, it becomes a hot topic. In the era of “banning” or “hate watching” the only thing that can kill any hot or controversial book is indifference. Hatred doesn’t change anyone’s opinion. A cool “meh” might just kill a hot topic, than banning the book itself.
-Louis Bruno is the author of more than 19 books, including, The Michael Project, The Michael Project: Book 2: The Lost Children of Eve, Thy Kingdom Come, The Disintegrating Bloodline Part 2: Chaos, The Data Chase, The Disintegrating Bloodline part 3: Solvè, The Disintegrating Bloodline (and the original text re-released in 2019), Apocalypse Soldier, The Data Chase, Selection: The First Book of the Life and Death Saga, and Blinking Eyes: The Second Book of the Life and Death Saga, Hierarchy of Dwindling Sheep, The City of Sand, The God of Curiosity, To the Moon and Back, The Villain Lives and The Villain Lives: The Divided Pinpoint, Come Home, Young One. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Phoenix. His books can be found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lulu. He can be found on Gab, https://gab.com/thereallouistbruno, Minds https://www.minds.com/lbruno8063/. Instagram @lbrruno8063 and @louisbrunoofficialbook. Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouisBr88881650. He has written for the Intellectual Conservative and Ephemere. His newest book, The Voices Are Alive is out now: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/louis-bruno/the-voices-are-alive/hardcover/product-mvggdg.html?page=1&pageSize=4. Also, if you can’t subscribe so that you can get members only content, please be sure to share the articles, as well. If you do Subscribe, you have long term access to the paid articles that some readers won’t get to see or access after the articles/books go private. If that doesn’t tickle your pickle, I am also selling merch from t spring, if you want to help support me in other ways. I sell hoodies, shirts, phone cases, and trying to find something there loved ones would like. Link is here: https://thereallouistbruno.creator-spring.com/listing/too-many-strings-not-enough. https://thereallouistbruno.creator-spring.com/listing/duck-fuckery. https://thereallouistbruno.creator-spring.com/listing/headless-corpo. Every little like, subscribe share, helps. Thanks for reading.