Thank you for this hugely important essay. I retired to Oklahoma last year (from New York) and am building a museum designed to celebrating "being inspired to think for yourself rather than being victimized by domineering authorities". I'm doing this because - as a child - I found the ability to resist my angry, hateful, bigoted father's efforts to dominate my life through a variety of things I saw on television... what I've identified as the positive side of the American Spirit. While my museum... the Route 66 Spirit of America Museum in Stroud, OK... will not directly address book banning, it will show the power of being inspired to "think for yourself so you can boldly go where you haven't gone before" by any number of real and fictional people and stories.... from the space program to Star Trek... from Walter Cronkite to Jimmy Stewart movies... from Muhammad Ali to Buckminster Fuller and more...
Thank you for this hugely important essay. I retired to Oklahoma last year (from New York) and am building a museum designed to celebrating "being inspired to think for yourself rather than being victimized by domineering authorities". I'm doing this because - as a child - I found the ability to resist my angry, hateful, bigoted father's efforts to dominate my life through a variety of things I saw on television... what I've identified as the positive side of the American Spirit. While my museum... the Route 66 Spirit of America Museum in Stroud, OK... will not directly address book banning, it will show the power of being inspired to "think for yourself so you can boldly go where you haven't gone before" by any number of real and fictional people and stories.... from the space program to Star Trek... from Walter Cronkite to Jimmy Stewart movies... from Muhammad Ali to Buckminster Fuller and more...