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(article) The misreading of fiction as fact makes suspects of us all
An interesting item...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/sep/18/misreading-fiction-act-manchester-school
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It's like the article in an american magazine ( I don't know which one as I read it on another forum) about the Walmart employee who on developing some family snaps reported one family as there were photographs of their children in the bath, the kids were taken away, eventually the kids were returned and the family never prosecuted.
I think if you take the paranoia and mix in a little bit of sheep mentality this is what you get. Everyone is so scared that it will turn into something that they are prosecuting everything. Instead of actually taking a deep breath and looking at it sensibly.
Hell if anyone looked at my books, browsing history and my writing I'd be in trouble, I tell you anything happens to hubby and they won't look any further.
Thought Police: Ve haf been watching you Nephilims_child, nothing escapes our attention. :)
Or am I wrong? Should we start censoring all works of art, and prosecuting those involved in creating that art of being complicit in whatever crimes thought up by the pychopaths and sociopaths of the world?
We need to get out of the dark ages, get past the neandethal mob mentality, and start thinking for ourselves. Maybe then we'll get that the unhinged, the fanatical and the inherently evil will inevitably go about their business without any prompting at all from the art world.
*SA*
As writers we get our ideas from everything we see around us, so it's inevitable that some stuff might hit a bit too close to home, or make some feel uncomfortable. And I'm okay with that, because while that sort of stuff is kicking around I know we still have free speech in our society.
*SA*