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Editor in Chief @ArcDigi. Host of Belvyland. Co-host of Arc Digicast. I write a daily newsletter called DiscRep. 👑 of The Discourse™

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    1. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

      Books go in and out of print all the time. But that doesn't mean their reasons for doing so are equally valid.

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    2. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

      Some no longer attract enough interest to justify continuing to print them, which is fine. Others, as with the set of Seuss books everyone's talking about, contain elements we find problematic today. These, however, are discontinued *despite* ongoing interest, which isn't fine.

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      Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

      If a book is withdrawn while still drumming up interest, that takes us into suppression territory. I understand this wasn't government censorship or anything so heavy-handed. It was the estate itself discontinuing the titles.

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        2. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          But it requires head-in-the-sand levels of obliviousness to believe that the cultural pressures moving eBay to close off its second-hand market to the books aren't *also* the driving force behind the estate wanting to bury those titles in the first place.

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        3. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          There's a literary censoriousness in the air that many of us find disconcerting. I want to talk about this a bit because it flows from a posture about the past that I think will impoverish, rather than enrich, our educational culture.

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        4. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          An antiracist educational reformer recently tweeted out the following.pic.twitter.com/A6TI1TYzDw

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        5. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          She is suggesting we “switch it up” from “the classics” because many of them were written “before the ’50s,” the implication being that these books inevitably reflect the dominant cultural values of that pre-enlightened era. This is a really bad argument.

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        6. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          The inner logic of this reasoning essentially calls for each era to be able to ward itself off from the works of prior ones. Assuming each era will look back in horror at some of the features of past eras, her argument would actually underwrite generational literary myopia.

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        7. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          Another way to put it is that her approach would enact a pedagogical presentism. But this is a problem, because morality is not like empirical science in that it uncomplicatedly boasts of a linear progression.

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        8. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          To the degree that we do make gains in morality over time, that is precisely *because* we are vigilantly tracking our current actions through the filter of past mistakes, rather than sending those mistakes, and the eras from which they came, down the permanent memory hole.

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        9. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          *Prioritizing the new* works for subjects whose success conditions are tied to recent work supplanting older work, but it is disastrous in subjects—like literature or history—that, as a matter of inner conceptual design, don't and shouldn’t confine themselves to what's current.

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        10. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          The worry is that, by keeping the classics in rotation, students will imbibe the values of past eras. But another worry is students uncritically adopting the values of our own day. We actually *shouldn't* close them off to forms of life beyond the horizons of the present.

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        11. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          When the past is seen merely as a record of our pre-evolved states, as a cautionary tale about our morally primitive origins, rather than as the world our equals inhabited, we lose the ability to learn from it. Closing ourselves off blunts rather than sharpens our moral faculties

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        12. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          Also, the very authors who comprise our canon often critiqued their own eras. Many of these works were rebukes to their own societies, the authors often being both products of their time and foreigners to it, standing outside their own eras in prophetic judgment over them.

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        13. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          Obviously this isn't the case with the Seuss books. But I've moved past the Seuss case to discuss the underlying framework for educational reform that is inspiring a lot of upheaval.

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        14. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          Outcomes like keeping older books in print and continuing to teach the classics aren't important because those books are so superior; these outcomes are important because a fundamental posture we ought to take is that that *we* are not so superior to those who came before us.

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        15. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          Berny Belvedere Retweeted Noah Berlatsky

          There are some good counterpoints to my thread people might like to consider. Here's one by @nberlat.https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1367880325154607110?s=20 …

          Berny Belvedere added,

          Noah BerlatskyVerified account @nberlat
          so, I think the problem with our approach to the past is less censoriousness and more a believe in scarcity. https://twitter.com/bernybelvedere/status/1367880025073188867 …
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        16. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          Berny Belvedere Retweeted G. Scott Shand  🌐

          Here's a discussion @GScottShand was having with @CathyYoung63. Check out Cathy's piece and Scott's replies. https://theweek.com/articles/969971/why-dr-seuss-cancellation-chilling …https://twitter.com/GScottShand/status/1367588927784185866?s=20 …

          Berny Belvedere added,

          G. Scott Shand  🌐 @GScottShand
          Replying to @CathyYoung63
          A lot of good stuff here, but it ultimately convinces me of the opposite of your conclusion!
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        17. Berny Belvedere‏ @bernybelvedere Mar 5

          Good replies from @punkademic, @HarrenGWarding, @Yozarian22 and many others. I often dunk on reply-people that contribute nothing, so I want to big up people like the above who give me lots to think about.

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