Banned Books Week: Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed - Virtual Read-Out

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Run time: 06:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhIsCOZKDRc   Posted on YouTube: September 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: howl2011 Views on YouTube: 10   Posted on DU: October 01, 2011 By DU Member: marmar Views on DU: 1862

 

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The best way to profe that a book is worth bying, is specially when a government, or officials in the government, local or national, is banning books.. When the Popes of old times desided books was against the law, and banned it, it never ended in the book been forgotten.. Rather the opposite, as many of the books who was banned (and their writers) was given protection in other places where the Pope had no power. Specially in the Nort-Western parts of Europe, where Chatolics had no power (aka the pope) after the reforms of the 1500s..

And even tho it is a long time since the popes had real powers in the politics of the world - and also might also understood a few facts of the world in the prosess. many books are still on the list over books who are banned.. And would posible be it, as long as the Chatolic Church exist..

But the point here is the fact that banned books, who are dangrous, or provoking, have never been more populare, after they was banned.. Most of the books who was banned by the Popes of old, also was books that was read, comentated and sirculated around Europe and also spinned many other to think critical about the powers to be...

And in all this, the fact is that even that the books was banned, the world shanged more than everyone could imagine when the first pope desided he was afraid of a book.. And to ban a book is a childish, stupid move, that the books would problely be more poular by many than ever before.. And the few books who are, would be more worth than ever before - before the books was destroyed..

Even the nazis of the 1930s, never managed to burn all art and books they was seeing as "bad". And it is a fact, that even as the SA, SS and the other forms of the Nazi regime was buring books, many books was surviving, mostly becouse they wa safed by profesors, or ordinary germans, who undertood the value of the books.. Even tho they did it, on their own peril.. Many was beaten and even killed, becouse of it..

When a country, deside to ban books, they are on a dangrous turn, who can end in verry bad situations.. As one of the Mann (two brothers who was famous writers on their own right, and who had to flee germany in the 1930s, I belive both ended in US, or at least one of them) said, when the germans was buring their books.. When you can burn books, you can also burn humans. And he was way before his time, becouse in the end, germany indeed was burning their fellow men and woman...

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no other life.

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5. I read this book in college

It comes as no surprise to me that right wingers would want it banned.

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6. It's crazy to think this book is being banned. I read it when it

first came out. The video says it's being banned for anti-Christian, & socialism, etc.

It's a good book.

What I remember the most from reading this book was the cost of the dive hotel rooms - which zapped up what little money she made; her fatigue; & lack of food.

The other thing I remember the most, & it's the most profound - at least to me. It doesn't matter how low on the ladder you are, there is always someone lower than you. In other words: no matter how low & bleak your life might be, there is always someone beneath you that you can feel superior over.