{"id":968,"date":"2005-06-02T04:52:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T19:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2005-07-12T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T10:57:45","slug":"ten-books-we-should-burn-burn-burn-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/02\/ten-books-we-should-burn-burn-burn-burn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ten books we should BURN! burn, burn, burn!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accordionguy.blogware.com\/blog\/_archives\/2005\/6\/1\/901520.html\">Accordion Guy<\/a> picked up this tragi-grotesque list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humaneventsonline.com\/article.php?id=7591\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Most Harmful&#8221; books of the century<\/a> on <i>Human Events Online<\/i>, a site that panting hardcore conservatives usually browse with a single hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmn, awright&#8230; I&#8217;m not even sure why I bother discussing a list that places Darwins, Kinsey, Beauvoir and overall, any socio-political thought somewhat left of fundamentalist wingnutry as &#8220;harmful&#8221;&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Yet&#8230; I thought I would point out that these &#8220;19th and 20th century&#8221; contributions all but pale in comparison to a certain piece of writing from twenty centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am serious here: assuming somebody can give me anything other than &#8220;They don&#8217;t agree with us&#8221; as a systematic criterion for inclusion, I presume we would have to take in account killing and massacring of innocents as an important part of the selection process. In which case, call me biased, but I would dare venture that 2000 years of bloody history all seem to point at that bestseller featuring the life and teaching of that famous bearded hippie.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was the man a dangerous subversive commie with strong anti-capitalist positions and a heavy past as a free-trade obstructionist, but his book went on to justify a good half of all blood baths that took place in recorded history&#8230; Tell me about harmful liberal propaganda&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;most harmful books of the century&#8221; and most dimwitted people of the millenium as a bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-fucked-up-world","category-political-ranting","category-religion-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}