Quote:Anyone in search of a textbook example need look no further than the government’s Prevent programme, into which the government’s official review was finally published last week. William Shawcross’s excellent comprehensive report contains many things worth lingering over.



Radicalisation could occur from reading C.S. Lewis, Tolkien,
Huxley or Conrad. I kid you not



There is also a reading list of historical texts which produce red flags to RICU. These include Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, as well as works by Thomas Carlyle and Adam Smith. Elsewhere RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.

Prevent was meant to protect people. It evolved, in time, into something committed to going against almost everything about our country, including its people. 

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(06-12-2024, 02:09 AM)Maxmars Wrote: I don't know what to say anymore.

It appears that anything that might make a person think about the nature of their world now has a danger of 'radicalizing' the reader. 

Quote:Really!? Lewis, Tolkien, Orwell, Conrad, Huxley, Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Carlyle, Smith, and even Shakespeare are now to be considered potential terrorist profile components!?

What, really, is going on here?


I strongly suspect that there is an underlying "current" or theme in the writings of all these men - particularly Tolkien and Lewis - that has triggered these woke wackos, and the theme is "resistance to evil insanity". It's hard to avoid the obvious message in Tolkien, for example, as a bunch of power hungry...er... "people" are literally hell bent on taking over the rest of their world and turning it into  a charnel house of unrelenting slaughter and ugliness, and many of these "people" are the "orcs", twisted creatures "created" by the torture and twisting of Tolkien's elves into the heartless cannibalistic monsters that they are in throughout The Hobbit  and The Lord of the Rings. 

One does not have to read very far into the works of Shakespeare to confront similar memes of the power-mad literally made insane by evil and their quest for power. MacBeth comes to mind, but there are many others. Orwell's warnings over the future direction of society at the hands of such people need no introduction nor reprise here.  And as for Huxley being on the list, perhaps he too was too dangerous for daring to write a book titled The Perennial Philosophy... how dare he write about a theme that had also preoccupied Lewis et al.?

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(06-12-2024, 07:47 AM)LogicalGraffiti Wrote: Books that make you think are now seen as radicalizing the reader yet music glorifying criminal behaviour is not! 

What a crazy world our young people are having to grow up in.

(06-12-2024, 08:22 AM)Tecate Wrote: I would postulate that their aversion to George Orwell is not only limited or due to “1984”, but also definitely due to “Animal Farm” as well.

There is no doubt in my mind that these imbeciles are seeing themselves in his writings and thus are very likely trying to eradicate the population’s capability to identify them as such.

My 2 pesos.

Tecate