I am obligated to read the author's Heinlein book as evidenced by my screen name. Wasn't expecting to engage in commerce this early in the morning, but the world has its surprises.
We've always had "Children's Bibles " and "Abridged" works, and that was fine, because you knew you were getting a watered down, lesser version. This is so sinister, they are trying to pretend that Dahl and Fleming are crappy writers like they are. It's just jealousy. The Jo Ross-Barnett's of the world will never write a sentence as good as Dahl, all they have is "identity".
For all those crying “Censorship” when sane people advocate taking graphic books depicting sex out of school libraries, I say “Look in the mirror”. What else is this sanitization of literature but censorship?
Thank you for this. Very good read. I agree with every point. Strange that these arbiters of what is allowable for us to read, watch and listen to turn their backs on the obscene filth that is being pushed on our children within the government and private schools. Or worse, they advocate for it.
Dahl and Fleming FOUGHT scum of this ilk with naked steel; of course scum of this ilk would come for them. Dahl suffered serious head injuries for his troubles. I read that and of his personality and first to spring to mind was was the classic case history of neurological and psychological insult, Phineas Gage.
Disinhibition and unpleasantness correlate to a great degree with brain insult.
If you look at the West's social and political maladies; one group of people is associated with most of them in disturbingly large part. We keep schtum about this but it is becoming increasingly obvious we probably shouldn't. Even the most cynical liberal is wide open to being exploited for their liberalism. Dahl's disinhibition meant he physically couldn't do this; but he paid a high price.
Fleming was probably one of THE key actors in bringing down the Third Reich (See 'One Day in August'). The Bond novels are indirect comment on England's Farewell to Empire; loss of standing and loss of purpose. They are also comment on the USA's opposite journey; the substitution of SPECTRE for SMERSH saying understatedly "We might have the wrong ally here."
I can see why some would want to Bowlderise him: he had their cards marked and his novels subtly work against them while upholding older values for truth.
Even without any of this palaver; these publishers were feeding off the dead. There are few things more morally repugnant than that; and what is more, off the corpses of men that FOUGHT that we be free. If they are YOUR publishers: walk. I shan't be putting money in the pockets of these grubby reprobates again; and neither should anyone else.
I’m both 100% Jewish and 100% anti-censorship. That said, I certainly understand why Wagner wasn’t played in Israel for a long time. But no one advocated changing the notes! Just so we’re clear about what we’re dealing with, here’s a quote from Dahl: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere... Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” To me that puts precisely zero pebbles on the pro-censorship side of the scale. But then, Caravaggio was probably a murderer, and I’m generally anti-murder.
I expect "electric tension" is triggering to people who have been tazed by the police so the improved one is still bad...
@WanjiruNjoya Mar 2
What Fleming wrote: “Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. His mouth was dry”.
Sensitivity writers changed that to: “Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.”
I am obligated to read the author's Heinlein book as evidenced by my screen name. Wasn't expecting to engage in commerce this early in the morning, but the world has its surprises.
We've always had "Children's Bibles " and "Abridged" works, and that was fine, because you knew you were getting a watered down, lesser version. This is so sinister, they are trying to pretend that Dahl and Fleming are crappy writers like they are. It's just jealousy. The Jo Ross-Barnett's of the world will never write a sentence as good as Dahl, all they have is "identity".
For all those crying “Censorship” when sane people advocate taking graphic books depicting sex out of school libraries, I say “Look in the mirror”. What else is this sanitization of literature but censorship?
Thank you for this. Very good read. I agree with every point. Strange that these arbiters of what is allowable for us to read, watch and listen to turn their backs on the obscene filth that is being pushed on our children within the government and private schools. Or worse, they advocate for it.
Dahl and Fleming FOUGHT scum of this ilk with naked steel; of course scum of this ilk would come for them. Dahl suffered serious head injuries for his troubles. I read that and of his personality and first to spring to mind was was the classic case history of neurological and psychological insult, Phineas Gage.
Disinhibition and unpleasantness correlate to a great degree with brain insult.
If you look at the West's social and political maladies; one group of people is associated with most of them in disturbingly large part. We keep schtum about this but it is becoming increasingly obvious we probably shouldn't. Even the most cynical liberal is wide open to being exploited for their liberalism. Dahl's disinhibition meant he physically couldn't do this; but he paid a high price.
Fleming was probably one of THE key actors in bringing down the Third Reich (See 'One Day in August'). The Bond novels are indirect comment on England's Farewell to Empire; loss of standing and loss of purpose. They are also comment on the USA's opposite journey; the substitution of SPECTRE for SMERSH saying understatedly "We might have the wrong ally here."
I can see why some would want to Bowlderise him: he had their cards marked and his novels subtly work against them while upholding older values for truth.
Even without any of this palaver; these publishers were feeding off the dead. There are few things more morally repugnant than that; and what is more, off the corpses of men that FOUGHT that we be free. If they are YOUR publishers: walk. I shan't be putting money in the pockets of these grubby reprobates again; and neither should anyone else.
I’m both 100% Jewish and 100% anti-censorship. That said, I certainly understand why Wagner wasn’t played in Israel for a long time. But no one advocated changing the notes! Just so we’re clear about what we’re dealing with, here’s a quote from Dahl: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere... Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” To me that puts precisely zero pebbles on the pro-censorship side of the scale. But then, Caravaggio was probably a murderer, and I’m generally anti-murder.
One of the Bond bowdlerizations is bad enough that I joked about it on twitter - https://twitter.com/di2nu/status/1631120721152970752
I expect "electric tension" is triggering to people who have been tazed by the police so the improved one is still bad...
@WanjiruNjoya Mar 2
What Fleming wrote: “Bond could hear the audience panting and grunting like pigs at the trough. He felt his own hands gripping the tablecloth. His mouth was dry”.
Sensitivity writers changed that to: “Bond could sense the electric tension in the room.”