[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:54:08 EDT
That could be part of the problem too, but I am suddenly reminded of a
funny story. I said that the censor types insist on imposing their own tastes
on
everyone else. Actually, now that I think about it, it may not even be
their own tastes. There was a guy I once knew who was an official at my city's
most prominent Presbyterian church. He wasn't a minister and I don't know
exactly what he was, but he had his own private office in the church and he
absolutely never appeared in public wearing anything but a gray suit and a neck
tie. He was the pillar of the community type. Now, obviously, this is not
the kind of person I would hang out with. I only knew him barely and that was
only because I knew his daughter a lot better. She was a much more regular
kind of person. She could party for one thing. Her father's idea of partying
was probably a stiff formal dinner with the city fathers. Well, the time
came when I got a job as a sales clerk in a porn shop and suddenly he had a
pair of automobile floor mats that he wanted to give me. Not only that, but he
wanted to deliver them to me at my place of employment. I assure you, he
could have given them to me elsewhere quite easily or even transmitted them to
me through his daughter. When he came into the shop it was all I could do
to keep from bursting out laughing. He was trying his best to look nonchalant
and appear to ignore the wares on display, but I could see his eyes darting
around and he was nearly salivating. The mats were obviously an excuse to
check out the interior of a porn shop. I even felt a little sorry for him. I
am sure that he really wanted to open up some of the magazines or watch some
of the videos, but the mats did not provide an excuse for that and he
couldn't come up with an excuse. In retrospect I wonder what he would have said
if I had offered to show him some of those things. Now the issue never came
up, but I knew him and his type well enough that I am sure that if, for
example, someone had proposed a city ordinance to shut the store down for
"indecency" that he would most likely have been all for such an ordinance. So,
yes,
censorship is the practice of imposing one's own tastes on everyone else,
but it is also the practice of imposing the tastes that one wants everyone to
think one has on everyone else.
"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies
the end.
" Leon Trotsky
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
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The problem is that because this rating has such a low threshold, and the
submitter cannot change it, that if a book gets one of those quick proofing
jobs,
the proof reader may not even check the rating. So the books get into the
collection with an adult rating because the submitter can't change it, and
the
proofer may not bother to check.
Evan
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I think it is both, but since at least the proofreader can change that
designation I think it is mostly the latter. The censorship mind set is
inherently
a mind set that insists on imposing one's own tastes on everyone else. It
is known by various names including self-righteousness,
holier-than-thou-ness,
arrogance and imperiousness.
"The end
may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
" Leon Trotsky
The Militant:
http://www.themilitant.com
Pathfinder Press:
http://www.pathfinderpress.com
Granma International:
http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
Date:
9/1/2009 9:03:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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The adult content scan must have an incredibly low threshold. That or
there are submitters who think no child/teen should read anything more
risque than Nancy Drew.
On 9/1/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Speaking of books to add to series,
> I hope one day
> they get book 3 I can't for the life of me think of what it is
> but they have Independence and the last in the 4 is Origon in the Wagons
> west series by Dana Fuller Ross,
> There are several messing,
> and to get them whenever is cool,
> but you actually need the 3rd book to make at least the first 4
complete.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:41 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wishlist Request
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>
>> Dear Booksharians,
>>
>> I would like to request the following be added to the collection:
>>
>> The Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
>>
>> It's the only one in this series that is missing, and I'd really like to
>> read it.
>>
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