Re: Down goes General Lee
you are the one that said destruction. prove it.
Florida fire started by book burning destroys two homes
Florida fire started by book burning destroys two homes - CNN.com
Updated 4:17 PM ET, Thu March 23, 2017
"This is the largest and most destructive wildland fire in Nassau County since 1998."
"The fire started when a man was burning paperback books, said Annaleasa Winter of the Florida Forest Service, in a briefing Wednesday night.
"It was an illegal burn," she said, adding that it's against the law to burn household garbage in Florida. "It was paper. It got away from him."
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/book-burning/burning.php
On May 10, 1933, in a symbolic act of ominous significance, the students burned upwards of
25,000 volumes of “un-German” books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. That night, in most university towns, right-wing students marched in torchlight parades “against the un-German spirit.” Rituals scripted for the event called for high Nazi officials, professors, university rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators. At the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and unwanted books into the bonfires with great joyous ceremony, band-playing, parades, songs, and “fire oaths.”
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Although the German Students Association had planned the book burnings for May 10, some were postponed a few days because of rain. Based on local chapter preference, others took place on June 21, the summer solstice, a traditional date of celebration. Nonetheless, in 34 university towns across Germany the book burning was a success, [/TD]
Forget about history and we end up doing the same dumb stuff over and over.
I included the more recent book burning specifically because of the widespread destruction you were calling for. There is a video.
https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Book...estruction/dp/0275990079?tag=thehuffingtop-20
Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the world's libraries occurred throughout the 20th century, and there is no end in sight. Cultural destruction is, therefore, of increasing concern.
In her previous book Libricide, Rebecca Knuth focused on book destruction by authoritarian regimes: Nazis, Serbs in Bosnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Chinese Communists in Tibet. But authoritarian governments are not the only perpetrators. Extremists of all stripes―through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other forms of mass violence―are also responsible for widespread cultural destruction, as she demonstrates in this new book.
