What’s the significance of book burning?

bluebellbkk

Ask yourself WHY they burned books. Because they didn't like the ideas in those books, obviously; and didn't want other people to know about them. Can't you see parallels in today's society? For example, when universities and colleges refuse to allow anyone to speak whose views they don't approve of?

Tina

I saw copies of Salman Rushdie's book being burned, but that is quite some time ago now. I'm not sure how contemporary the idea is.

The First Dragon

Some modern equivalents of book burning include blocking opinions or information on social media - Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. The burning of books, like burning the flag, is not always a sign of disrespect. Just as the US flag is supposed to be burned when it is worn out, sacred books are often burned when damaged beyond respectful use.

ProfGene.Togolot

What is similar to book burning is that people don't read books anymore due to the fact reading the classics was dropped from public school requirements somewhere around the late sixties. Reading great literature was a requirement in all public schools up until about the middle to late 60's then perhaps because students were having trouble with English and the classes became much larger 40 students to a class it became much harder to meet such standards now with technology replacing books the use of technology is the book burning of today and also the dumbing down of the public. Comic books used to be for kids and now there is a major film studio that churns out film versions of comic books. The Nazis burned all books by Jewish authors and all books that conflicted with Hitler's idea of a master race and all Communist literature. So books no longer need to be burnt they are going extinct.

Sir Caustic

All you have to do is point out that if people used books as fuel in their open fires and wood-burning stoves they'd save a hulluva amount of money due to not having to buy coal and stuff. Hope this helped.