Like every morning, I looked at the news that my smartphone offers me according to some system and I read: American libraries in the grip of cultural wars. Thousands of "unhealthy" titles are being eliminated (article is in Czech).
Damn. It's here again.
For fear that someone would accidentally read something that governments, teachers, parents ... do not have to agree with, "unhealthy" titles are discarded. But who determines what is wrong? Librarian? Special commissions? Government officials of a neighboring state who do not like the interpretation of history and want to change it?
Of course, I did not read the whole article. I would just like to know if they know in American libraries that heretical books were once burned in our country in the Czech Republic. Once they even burned a man whom church dignitaries considered heretics. It was Master Jan Hus and it happened on July 6, 2014 in Constance.
Is this an ancient past?
No way. The books were burned many more times afterwards. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes "by accident". During the post-war communist totalitarianism, many authors were completely banned in Czechoslovakia - they could write "to a drawer" or smuggle their works abroad, where someone published them. Others who initially defended freedom signed cooperation with the StB or at least agreement that the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 was "friendly aid".
Shit!
When, as humanity, will we finally wake up, stop putting sticks under each other's feet, and start working together on what concerns us all? By this I mean the issue of climate change, the development of a sustainable economy and renewable energy sources. Many oligarchs would have the money for that, we are just blowing it up in the war in Ukraine.
By removing some "unhealthy" titles from libraries, human envy and the desire of some egoists for power will not disappear from the world.
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