Efter den senaste tidens yttrandefrihets-diskussion så kan jag inte hjälpa att tänka på ett utdrag ur boken Farenheit 451. En dystopisk framtid där brandmän inte längre släcker bränder. Dom startar bränder.
I citatet nedan så talar huvudkaraktären Montag (brandman) med sin chef om varför det finns brandmän.
Läs, begrunda och diskutera om så önskar. Men ge FAN i rasistiska uttalanden.
“Now let’s take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don’t step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals.”
Så, vad säger ni? Ser vi några paralleller mellan boken och de ganska allvarliga övergreppen på vår yttrandefrihet vi ser idag? Är det "minoriteterna", svennarna eller politikerna som önskar sig ett ingrepp i vår grundlag? Och i så fall, varför?
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The original was posted on /r/sweden by /u/Lekparkus at 2023-07-06 20:33:56+00:00.