Paper is better for the brain.
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I’ve heard once or twice this Maoist attitude from party members:
“Grammar is not important. It is bourgeois, and so is classical literature. So developments like ‘I could of’, ‘I would of’, etc. are perfectly logical as all things change, including speech and writing. So bourgeois rules will have no place in socialism, and the classics too were the voice of the ruling class, as were rules of grammar.”
So classical literature and philology too can be left to die.
And so I ask, how will anyone learn Latin and classical Greek without grammar? And I will receive the reply,
“Who the heck in socialism would want to waste their time with dead languages? They were another bourgeois imposition of the past.”Sounds more like Trumpianism than Marxism to me. I guess historical research and archaeology, and the understanding of discovered writings can all be dumped. After all, as Henry Ford said, “History is bunk.” “Yes. We could of told you that!”
TM- I think we must always be aware of the ideological background of the writers of antiquity and later history. The lionization of people like Cicero by later historians was mainly because of their ‘bourgeois’ sensibilities and their love of a rigid class structure, property and elitism and a disregard of his being a slum landlord and a murderous hatchet man and rabble-rouser for the patrician class when they felt threatened by any level of economic or political reform. Until relatively recently historians, for instance, were all ‘middle-class gentlemen’.
Quite so, but that’s quite different from dumping books and knowledge/literacy of the past as “bourgeois” endeavours. That is Maoist.
I’m not a slum landlord because I read Cicero. And I’m not for doing away with his writings. Are people not to learn about him and his society? I never spoke of lionizing anyone either.
However, Cicero published Lucretius’ materialist work, On Nature, even though Cicero was a theist and idealist and strongly disagreed with it. Pseudo-Marxists, like Mao, are for destroying what they don’t agree with, not making it available.
This is terrible; a whole library was flooded, and many books were damaged. For the peoples that want to burn books ( that they do not read ), it is normal. For a bibliophile like me, this is a disaster. They knew that a storm was coming, but they did not take the proper precautions; the only thing that peoples about at present is to worship leaders
I agree. It is a tragedy.
In Switzerland a friend saved what books he could from a spent bonfire where the university library had been burning old hardback books of classic literature.
Syracuse University is closing or halting enrollment in about 20% of its academic programs, in a move that the school’s provost said was designed to create a university that would be “more focused, more distinctive and more aligned with student demand.” The humanities and the fine arts represented the largest share of programs that will be closed or paused. Read more. Published in the New York times
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It means that future students are not to have independent thinking, no knowledge about world history, geography, philosophy, arts, literature, languages, etc, etc., but they are expanding the department of business administration. They are missing the beauty and enjoyment of the humanities. I enjoyed all those academic disciplines because my first alma mater had a large department of humanities, and it had the best teachers hired from different parts of the world. Education based on brainwashing is the new trend
. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HumanitiesBulk orders for millions of books, to be destroyed.
Amazon owns Kindle books and Kindle devices. They have purchased several used bookstores; they scan the books, and then they are destroyed.
Barnes and Noble is doing the same thing with Nook digital books. Or Nook library: they sell the digital books and the devices
You buy the digital book, but you do not own it; you are renting a license.
They are selling book licenses to libraries; they have DRM over the books, but despite that, they have been accused of violating copyrights. Nobody has sued them because they have an army of attorneys
If you do not find a physical rare book, you can print a digital one in black and white ( monochrome laser printer ) and take it to a bookbinding company or a spiral binding company, and you will have a better paper book with a hard cover, better fonts and better paper. There is a company named Demco that sells all kinds of library supplies; there are free bookbinding classes online
My first Almamater was surrounded by bookstores, and now it is surrounded by evangelical churches, pubs and porn shops.
All radios that used to broadcast classical and instrumental music are gone
Music and good movies stores are gone too
Buenos Aires and Mexico are one of the few cities who have many bookstores.
Bookbinding used to be an art in many towns and now it is almost gone, old books are thrown away instead of being recover
Used books stores are gone now everything is controlled by amazon
We are dinosaurs
Marxists bookstores are gone and now the red scared is coming back again
Forum like this do not exist anymore, they join internet medias to publish photos, pornography, craps and to worship leaders
Peoples who do not even read comics books have an opinion on everything.
Journalists must be part of the crowd otherwise they would be laid off , real journalism is gone and journalist do not do any research, and they do not read books, it is just a profession to make money. They are cardboard readers
Young peoples do not find any future in this society and they are killing themselves, suicides among youngsters is increasing
Kindle and digital books are owned by Amazon. They are making a lot of profits on digital books, and they are selling the device.
Some universities are motivating students to buy digital books and take their iPad or computers to the class room , fully loaded with digital books.
They purchased many used bookstores to transfer/scam the books into digital formats, that is the reason why used bookstores are no longer in existence
I buy paperbacks and take them to a bookbinding company, and they cover them in different colors, and they are brand new again; they use a manual guillotine and attach three ribbons of different colors to mark the book’s pages.
It is an old art that is also disappearing; schools of libraries are being closed, and librarians are losing their jobs, I went to a library to look for a particular book and the librarian asked me of what kind of movie was that; she is not a librarian
I keep them like a treasure; as well, I keep my classical, opera ad jazz music LPs, DAT, SVHS (music tracks), and reel-to-reel, like a treasure, all of them covered with plastic sleeves. I rent a big storage place where I keep most of my music and vintage stereo equipment. A friend of mine who had an enormous collection of music left it to me in his testament
Young people do not know the beauty of reading paper books and listening to good music; anybody who owns a computer becomes a composer
In the past universities had department to listen music on headphone, they have been vanished , my first almamater had a large department for music, there was a LA president who eliminate import taxation for books and music, he wants young peoples to love good music and humanitieshttps://www.commondreams.org/news/artificial-intelligence-book-burning
Destruction of books
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