Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:31:15 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Banned Books


Can't stop myself from commenting on this thread. Regime's who ban 
books usually are very repressive regimes where we wouldn't want to 
live. The internet today makes the banning of books absurd because so 
much is available there. But the same repressive regimes ban internet 
sites. Genevieve Anderson's Puppet film Too Loud a Solitude shows how 
the Soviet controlled- Czech regime did away with books they didn't 
like. And in Cervantes Don Quixote, (my latest puppet film, still in 
post-production) we see Quixote's books burned by his close-family 
unit because they thought they were the source of his madness. This 
is most often interpreted as the Spanish Inquisition (who burned not 
only undesirable books, but people). So, Institutions who ban books 
are simply repressive, so one should never advocate the banning of 
books. But I am against doing all one can to prevent poison- 'hate' 
books from entering our hemisphere.
      Recently, the Yale University Press withdrew the infamous comic 
strips which depicted Islam in a humorous, negative angle from a book 
whose subject was these very comic strips and the writer was a Yale 
Professor. So, even our institutions censor content from the 
Intellectual world-- which is a shame. They did this in the name of 
national security.

-Steven Ritz-Barr




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