Books the Schools Ignores For the State

America talks incessantly about Bibles in schools and, frankly, we don't care all that much since the ones who carry them aren't going anywhere and the ones who are going somewhere don't carry them. The general idea is to convert all Americans to Christianity but they didn't even do much of a job converting themselves.  For example, they rarely know much of the theology and don't even go to church.  They say they represent something but it's not clear what.  As above, we don't care what they represent.  There are much more important matters in play in the educational curriculum.

Note:  this is not about cracking on teachers since they have almost no power in the curriculum and teaching below the university level is one of the most horrible jobs anyone could ever have.  They aren't allowed to teach, they can only recite.  The problem is usually the school boards which select textbooks, etc.  Such boards are almost always rabidly political and we have seen some of the prize fools Texas has elected to such positions.  Mary Lou Bruner is so much the textbook case you don't even have to know her name to find her.  You only need 'texas school board crazy ideas' and, pop, there she is.


These are books kids really need to read but we rarely hear of them after they were supplanted by idiot movies like "American Sniper" and other examples of jingoistic tripe from Clint Eastwood.  That made lots of money for Eastwood but so does selling coke and it's arguable which is most destructive to the species.

"Fail-Safe" (Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler) - the premise with nuclear weapons systems is there are so many fail-safe mechanisms that an inadvertent war is impossible.  That was fine until a system failed.

"Johnny Got His Gun" (Dalton Trumbo) - Johnny was sent to war and was blown all to hell with his arms and legs destroyed and most of his senses no longer working.  He wound up a body in a bed which was trying so hard to communicate.  In the end they finally realized he was saying, "Let me die."

"On the Beach" (Neil Shute) - the aftermath of a nuclear war leaves a cloud of radiation circling the Earth and it's coming to Australia but it's not there yet.  This is a story of the last days of the last people in the world.

"Catch-22" (Joseph Heller) - the best all-time reduction in the meaning of war as you can only deal with it if you're crazy.


The object isn't to present a comprehensive list but rather to show some representative examples to demonstrate the problem.

One element of propaganda is to classify these books and others with similar themes as 'anti-war' but that term presupposes the idea someone is in favor of war when there's no logical reason to be in favor of a war unless you profit on it.  These are obvious things but the state knows it can steamroller people by presenting the same things multiple times so these became anti-war books.

The most obvious propaganda is in making so much noise supporting a contrary position that all others are marginalized by it.  Hence we have the enormous publicity for "American Sniper" and we hear nary a word of anything opposing such behavior.  Similarly, there's so much hammering over idiocy such as the Pledge of Allegiance that kids are getting broken down into a jingoistic wormhole in which dissent is futile and resistance absurd.


Yevette looks constantly for conspiracy theories but there's one right under her nose in the effective censorship of books.  All of these books are available but you never hear a peep about them.  If you want a conspiracy, ask yourself why not and how did it get that way.