The Emperor Has No Clothes!

Some of my family has grown very rich with pig farming. The problem isn't the existence with the pig, the pig farm as such. It goes far further than just claiming that certain things aren't as good as others. I don't see the point of objecting to junk food, but I do see the point of objecting to the means that certain people employ to cover up the fact that fast and easy isn't necessarily the best. Why should anyone be without a good book to read, either at school or society at large. Is it better to keep opera for those people who deserve it? Is it more normal to claim that the ownership of knowledge is for the few people who have either the money or the breeding, or even both. My uncle the pig farmer lives an idyllic life with his castle, but I don't think that society will get any better with his taste in reading material or favorite music to boot. Don't the objectionable argument against me because I do know what I'm talking about. More and more children will get a poorer education and make society in the future the poorer for it. Don't try to insult me with only a few lines of meager English.

I think you mis-perceived the point of my comments.

Think anew, my friend.

Let me rephrase that: by reading your comment, there is no doubt that you did not understand my comment. My point was that any literature worth reading seeks to make a point. Given the high likelihood that someone will find that point "objectionable" and insist that the work be removed from circulation, it becomes very difficult for schools and public libraries to offer material of any value. Indeed, I read recently of a group of parents getting Alice in Wonderland removed from their local public library because they found something objectionable in it. This creates a strong negative incentive against making works of merit available and, instead, to substitute games and works so mindless that no one could find them objectionable. Pigs and pig farms don't factor into the analysis.

Lol... you're way to rational there. The point is that we all want our pork as cheap and as nice as possible. Nothing wrong there but then the pig farmer tries to cut corners and the damage is done. Libraries who buy into the gaming idea don't do it because of any objectionable argue but rather because of a false belief that it's giving what the majority of the people want. Total democracy is a dangerous myth. Although Alice in Wonderland is a nice children story there are reasons to think that the author went a bit over the mark in his hidden meanings. Perhaps the people who objected are too protective or even too political correct, they actually still care for the end result and not the instant satisfaction.

Oh yes, gone are the days when kids of all layers of society would be stimulated to learn languages, to learn about the arts... Perhaps I do type many mistakes here but then again English is my fourth language. I don't see a timid child like myself years ago being motivated to reach for the stars any more. Rather shooting down stars in games or reading about the gossip of teenage stars. Why do children need to know about the weird social life of some of teenage celebrities? No, I bet that not many of the children in the not so distant future will even overcome dyslexia, like myself ages ago, to learn about the better things in life. Shame, shame, shame. More people need to stand up and say: j'accuse!!!