You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.

There is more than one way to burn a book.
And the world is full of humans running about with lit matches.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in humans’s heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry rot, and humans with matches.

Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered the burning of all philosophy books and history books from states other than Qin — beginning in 213 BC.

The Seleucid monarch Antiochus IV, who in 168 BC ordered Jewish ‘books of the law' found in Jerusalem to be ‘rent in pieces' and burned.

Established beliefs of Epicurus was burned in a Paphlagonian marketplace by order of the charlatan Alexander in 160 AD.
Egyptian alchemical books of Alexandria were burnt by the emperor Diocletian in 292 AD.

Christian books by a decree of the Roman emperor Diocletian in 303.

Emperor Flavius Jovianus orders the burning of the Library of Antioch in 364.

Theodosius orders all the non-Christian books to be burned in 448.

There was always a minority afraid of something,
and a great majority afraid of the dark,
afraid of the future, afraid of the past,
afraid of the present, afraid of themselves
and afraid of the shadows of themselves.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . .
live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
See the Earth. It's more fantastic than
any dream made or paid for in factories.

We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life.
We see the stars, and we want them.
We are beholden to give back to the universe ....
If we make landfall on another star system,
mankind becomes immortal.

-Ray Bradbury, American author

"In the scene of the movie of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" the fireman Montag, played by Oscar Werner, finds his wife, played by Julie Christie, studying her part in an interactive soap opera to be aired on the walls of their living room.

"They mailed me my part this morning," she enthuses. "I sent in some box tops. They write the script with one part missing. . . . When it comes time for the missing lines, they all look at me out of the three walls and I say the lines."

That's an awful moment, sad and haunting, and in its edge of longing, it evokes contemporary culture's alienation, which has expanded exponentially since Ray Bradbury examined it half a century ago.

What Ray Bradbury was hinting at is the ever thinning boundary between reality and illusion, a boundary that grows more tenuous everyday.

How long is it until reality becomes a fantasy and we believe we are characters in the drama ourselves?

We, the audience, exist not only to be manipulated but to participate in our manipulation by seeing it as cool."

-David L. Ulin

See Saul Bellow, Orson Scott Card,James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Heinlein, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Herbert, Louis Lamour, Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of humans running about with lit matches.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and afraid of the shadows of themselves.