The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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The History of Publishing in the History of Censorship
More and more in the modern age, artists are being asked to make sure their work is adhering to some ideological agenda. The Bible was censored because it had too much sex and violence. There's no religious swearing in Shakespeare because every play that he wrote had to go through a sensor. This feels terribly reminiscent of a passage you have in three tarot cards from 2019. You say this very moral view of literature which would scandalize was typical of the Victorian age. Do you think we're moving back towards that Victorian age?There's pluses and minors for everything. So in a democratic society, should anybody be allowed to say whatever they want, no matter how harmful to certain groups
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