This generation is frightened of ideas, or at least it's being suppressed.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
Every story has a point of view and whether it's by what one chooses to include or exclude from a story or whether it's a very specific agenda that is pushed, there is no such thing as objective media. Once you realize that it's more than just a marketplace of ideas, it's a battleground of ideas that are suppressed and the ideas that are pushed forward in the mainstream media are the ones that independent media has a chance to address. I think that the democratization of media in that way can be very helpful in allowing the truth to come out in a way that it might not on CNN or FOX.
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
