“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reding them.”—Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“Do you still like Harry Potter?” he asked. “I’m learning and won’t pretend to understand hierarchy of loyalties in what world terms liberal minds. Are you allowed to love what you love, or only so long as the mass approves—which is always following and echoing someone else without knowing face, or if even real, of the origin-source? Can you like the story of a little orphan dismissed and neglected who is shown to have great powers? Can you like the story of the author, who in poverty and with nothing, made something amazing from her own stories and dreams of mind? Or must we reject and disavow both because someone, angry, says we should? Must we hate the author for her stance on obvious, spoken obvious truths because the obvious truths do not toe the message-line of a political/social/spiritual/religious force? How intolerant and closed of a movement that preaches and professes itself the spiritual church and champion of its actioned opposites! Why must a movement that idolizes individuality destroy individuals when they practice the inexcusable liberality of exercising their own opinion in public discourse? Does a movement that does so really stand for individual? Is such a movement even liberal at all, or like most evil—is claimed title conditioned abuse, misuse, and redefining of a term once-regarded as universally good?
Why does the movement seek to destroy those who speak obvious truths? Why does a movement preach infinite inane liberties while collective conspires to subvert, submit, and crush the ultimate human freedom? Maybe because remindings of obvious truths show all the movement tells is lies; and message and proof of the obvious truths, GOOD, will always return—disrupting designs—until Truth itself is made universally low, eternally subjugated, and truth becomes what the movement says, and truth itself (though perhaps already so) is nothing more than word. Harry Potter must die—just as any hero who may disrupt the world and power of movement’s, Voldemort’s, order.
I hope you live your liberality—still love and profess—what you enjoy and don’t hide your mind and pleasures because body-politic of professed tolerance has changed its message once again.”