On those days when one isn’t sure where to start blogging, a visit to IFI’s web site helps.
Books Too Obscene to Describe in Newspaper, but OK for D214 Students?
What are these works? Many of the books in question are pornographic, obscene and vulgar. Make no mistake, if these books were movies, they would receive ratings of R, NC-17 and some would be rated X. The following list is just some of the titles administrators want to purchase:
Fallen Angels
The Things They Carried
Freakonomics
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Freakonomics and The Botany of Desire are both non-fiction science based books. I can’t believe how fucking bizarre these freaks are. It only gets worse if you bother to read down the entire story:
3. Is some of the material really pornography or at the very least obscene and doesn’t this violate laws?
Good question. Here is the dictionary.com definition:
por-nog-ra-phy Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
Three books certainly could be close, if not actually qualify for this classification: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Beloved, and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent.
Beloved is pornography? The Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a Nobel Prize winner in literature is pornography?
That is what IFI and it’s lunatic following want to ban. Nobel Prize winning authors are simply too much for teenagers.
“Make no mistake, if these books were movies, they would receive ratings of R, NC-17 and some would be rated X.”
If the IFI’s favorite book were made into a movie, some of its more perverse passages would absolutely have it X-Rated.
For example:
Genesis, Chapter 19, Verses 1-7:
1. And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
2. And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
4. But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
5. And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
6. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
7. And said, “I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
8. “Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.”
And did Lot’s turning his daughters over to a sex-crazed mob mess them up? You’re damn right it did!
Genesis, Chapter 19, Verses 30-38:
30. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37. And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Children should not be exposed to such twisted sexual behavior.
“Fallen Angels” and “The Things They Carried” are frank, coming-of-age war stories. They contain adult language, violence and sexuality. The IFI is objecting to these books for the same-old “Catcher in the Rye” reasons. I think the IFI is ignorant and closed-minded. But I can at least see that they’re trying to “protect” children from sex and language, here. The fact that “Freakonomics” is on the list really tells you their motives. Because their objection clearly isn’t to protect children from sex or language. With “Freakonomics” they want to “protect” children from a non-religious discussion of abortion.
Freakanomics? I so do not get the IFI. Help us all if teenagers understand economics.
Then again perhaps the section about Sumo is the problem since it involves people with few clothes on.
—-With “Freakonomics” they want to “protect” children from a non-religious discussion of abortion.
Yeah, and the book on botany is quite good from what I understand and takes a very different tact in making biology interesting.
Oneman: LOL
AM: Funny, we had the book in my high school in a lit course….