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I Was a Grade School Pervert!
2 years ago
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In his book Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction, author Benjamin Percy points out that we see the world through the lens of our work -- that what we do shapes how we think. So, turning a bookseller's eye on the horror stories of librarians working, or formerly working, in Livingstone Parish, Louisiana, and entirely too many other places in (small town) America, I'd like to make the following public service announcement:
If you're one of those halfwits busy trolling librarians and teachers online, when you're not sending them actual DEATH THREATS -- people that you baselessly and maliciously accuse of being pedophiles and pornographers -- God, I hope your kids, assuming you even have any, are smarter than you, despite your best efforts to make sure that they're not. Yes, books are scary, they're full of things you don't already know, which is why you're afraid of them in the first place, why you really don't want anyone to read anything -- it's all "indoctrination" (except, of course, when you approve of the doctrine). Your "thought" processes defy comprehension.
Don't remember how young I was, but I was still in grade school when a nice neighbor lady gave me a comic book she clearly hadn't bothered to read: Zap Comix. Whichever issue it was, it had all the extremely perverse, sexually explicit nightmare comedy shit by R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, etc., that a kid could hardly imagine -- quite a change from Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, that's for sure. You won't find this stuff in the school libraries where you're obsessively looking for it, because the library staff are already doing their jobs -- it takes well-meaning idiots from the general public to put pornography into the hands of kids.
I held onto that comic for years, of course.
If you're one of those halfwits busy trolling librarians and teachers online, when you're not sending them actual DEATH THREATS -- people that you baselessly and maliciously accuse of being pedophiles and pornographers -- God, I hope your kids, assuming you even have any, are smarter than you, despite your best efforts to make sure that they're not. Yes, books are scary, they're full of things you don't already know, which is why you're afraid of them in the first place, why you really don't want anyone to read anything -- it's all "indoctrination" (except, of course, when you approve of the doctrine). Your "thought" processes defy comprehension.
Don't remember how young I was, but I was still in grade school when a nice neighbor lady gave me a comic book she clearly hadn't bothered to read: Zap Comix. Whichever issue it was, it had all the extremely perverse, sexually explicit nightmare comedy shit by R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, etc., that a kid could hardly imagine -- quite a change from Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, that's for sure. You won't find this stuff in the school libraries where you're obsessively looking for it, because the library staff are already doing their jobs -- it takes well-meaning idiots from the general public to put pornography into the hands of kids.
I held onto that comic for years, of course.
.. and benefiting EVERYBODY in a good good way!
( at least that's how I, for one, hope it'd turn out.. )
Though I think Dennis Prager himself recently came out and said "yes, we are indoctrinating our kids... in our doctrine!" and didn't know how freaking terrible he sounded actually saying that out loud with his mouth.