I'm somewhat concerned that may not remain the case. There's the matter of Bill C-51, currently on the Parliamentary agenda. While it's supposed to protect us, there are aspects of it that seem downright scary -- especially for those of us who may occasionally express contrarian positions.
A title I'm worried about is When Everything Feels Like the Movies. It's currently a finalist on this year's Canada Reads and it won the Governor General's Award last year. But now there's a contingent of frantics (my name for them) who are challenging the book's content, claiming it shouldn't have been allowed to win the GG and that the award should be rescinded.
All I can suggest is that you read it for yourself. Quick. While you still have the freedom to.
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“I’m not promoting a culture, I’m depicting one — and I’m doing it with the graphic language that culture uses, and with the themes that culture is consumed with: fame, drugs, sex, and selfies,” Reid said.
I wonder why these frantics are not protesting the way our media has created false cultures with its hyper cruelty and violence. You know the media that earns billions of dollars and has influenced the whole world.
Ah yes, that media, the one that so often likes to tell us who we are and what we should look like. Too many of us (year of the sheep, is this appropriate?) blithely go along with so much... I appreciate your accepting my term, the 'frantics' -- seemed to suit 'em.
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