rhetoric can't raise the dead.

 

My biggest soap box is censorship.

 

As much as I have a genuine and heartfelt problem with Twilight, as much as I believe that porn brings nothing but harm to this world, more than either of those things (and plenty of others), I am against censorship. And to a degree that some may label as radical.  I do not want the Government to shut down the porn industry. I do not want to see even the drivel of rabid fanatics burned.

 

Why?

 

It's remarkably simple.

 

In another place, another time, one that may not be so far from now (whether past or future), I might be that fanatic screaming to the world, "Don't you see? Can't you hear? This is not right!" I might be the woman in red, giving a big "f*ck you" to the machine that tells me not to feel, that passion is wrong, that desire is reprehensible.

 

That's it.

 

Of course there is more to it than that. But there is room enough for long essays and self-reflection elsewhere.

 

The American Library Association posts a list every year of the 10 most frequently challenged books.  They also post a list at the end of each decade of the 100 most frequently challenged books.  Some of these books are masterpieces. Some of them are drivel. One of my most treasured bucket list goals is to read all of them.

 

tl:dr?  read banned books.