LISNews: Librarian News

Why are you complaining? As a censorship advocate, isn't this what you want? Censorship?

Or have you simply never attempted to project where a trend of censorship was likely to lead? The slippery slope is a fallacy only in logic; it is a very real force in the physical world. Here, once more, is a clue:

The Taliban outlawed paper bags.

And even after hitting the bottom of the barrel they crashed right through it and started attacking the iconography of other religions. This is the system you espouse. Instead of complaining, you should be shouting your hallejuhahs from the rooftops that: the system works!

Remember: A patriot is someone who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. If you can't rejoice in the system you demand, then perhaps you are not the patriot you fancy yourself.

I don't suppose they'd allow him to teach this alternate version of Thanksgiving--that the Pilgrims were celebrating their own "fall of Communism" which had been a miserable failure.

Both the traditional view and the “p.c.� view of Thanksgiving, however, miss a critical part of the true historical story: the vital economics lesson that the Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth learned. Their first year in the colony was so disastrous – with the colonists barely surviving death by starvation – largely because of the communist economic system they had attempted, as a utopian experiment. The Pilgrim settlers had decided to hold the land as their common community property and also to share in common the harvests they produced on the land. As Fred Foldvary, an economist at Santa Clara University, has noted in his essay “Thanksgiving Day – The True Story,� this communist system was a failure. “The men were not eager to work in the fields, since if they worked hard, they would have to share the added produce with everyone else.� After two years of poor harvests under this system, they change it to a system based on individual enterprise: although the land was still owned in common, each family was allotted a portion and could keep whatever they grew. “Their new incentive-based economic system was great success,� Professor Foldvary notes, in explaining the reason for the thanksgiving observance in 1623. Mayer Blog

As a censorship advocate, isn't this what you want?

Nonsense. If this refers to my position on filters as collection development we've been down this road before.

Give me proof that your local library up there by the St. Lawrence River accepted your demand for Juggs, Water Sports and Bear subscriptions and I'll reconsider. Not to worry about verification, their catalog is online.

The Taliban outlawed paper bags.

404 Not Found

I think it is a huge mistake to apply the term "Communism", and invention of the 19th century, to late 16th and early 17th century religious dissenters. You could no more call them Communists than you could call them Capitalists. Forcing them into that mold simply ignores the differences in an attempt to emphasize the similiarities.

Otherwise, would you consider the Oneida an example of succesful Communism?