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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:33 PM Original message |
Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Hey IndianaGreen!) |
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Terran1212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. Darwin... |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. I'm reading it now. |
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rkc3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring makes the mentionables list too. |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I got a nasty paper cut reading that one |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. Yes |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. I like this blurb .... |
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IrateCitizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
26. Actually, yes... Bush is a military Keynesian... |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
38. somehow that is Keynes' fault? |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. That is a wonderful reading list! |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. Whenever I think of Human Events I think of that castrated freak |
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tx_dem41 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
6. Can a book truly be harmful? |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Only to a radical rightist. |
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rkc3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. You mean like how they've interpreted the Bible to fit their |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
40. Not when read with critical thinking |
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tx_dem41 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 06:59 PM Response to Reply #40 |
50. You got my point. |
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Journeyman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. Out of 30 books, I've read 12. . . |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
41. some classics on that list |
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LiberalPersona (679 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
10. Cool |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
11. Did they advocate burning the books and their authors? |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. They forgot Orwell's 1984, because it lays out for us |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 05:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
45. They probably love the world Orwell painted in 1984 |
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ComerPerro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 05:34 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Yeah but Orwell warned us |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
14. Might I ask a stupid question? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Hey, it made no sense when the Church banned Galileo or Copernicus, either |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:50 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Shhh! |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 03:32 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. oh.... |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. Here's the FULL list |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 06:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
48. Why is Nader on there? |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
16. I don't understand why they consider Mein Kampf "harmful" |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
17. Damn, I better get moving. |
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punpirate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
18. What's amazing is that... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. Those dopes obviously never read those books |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
21. thanks...i need some new books |
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Waistdeep (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
23. Ooh, ooh! Do they do music reviews? |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 05:12 PM Response to Reply #23 |
43. Many music critics are accused of not listening to what they review |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
25. OMFG!!! How totally weird!!! |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
28. Consider the source |
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La Coliniere (581 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. Silent Spring???? |
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RuleofLaw (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. Karl Marx and Engels |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:08 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. SHUSH YOU!!! |
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lectrobyte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
32. The Kinsey Report as number 4? What's wrong with these people? |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 07:21 PM Response to Reply #32 |
52. Because it allowed that women liked sex, too. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
33. Oooh, scary! Feminism! Environmentalism! Sex! The New Deal! |
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eagler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
34. I find it ironic that Mein Kampf is second on the list considering the |
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SeveneightyWhoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 05:15 PM Response to Reply #34 |
44. Don't you know Hitler was a leftist? |
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Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
35. Gee, the most "harmful" seem also to be among the most |
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Just Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:16 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. They would ruin some "beautiful minds",... |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
39. Excellent reading list! Even the HItler should be scanned |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
42. Betty Friedan a "Stalinist Marxist"? |
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Juice45 (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
47. Im curious |
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FourStarDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 07:54 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. This is from a bunch of wackos, I wouldn't try to figure them out. nt |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
49. What a bizarre list |
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Mist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
51. Kinsey? Friedan? Carson? "dangerous"?!?? |
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alarcojon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
53. What, no Chomsky? |
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FourStarDemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
55. They hate pschoanalysis, science, feminism, |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 10:29 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. Good summary |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-05 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
56. Harmful books? Um, right. |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
58. I must be real dangerous |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
59. This is a hoot |
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whoneedstickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-05 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
60. Let's compile our own list...... |
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