Dear Editor,
Daniel Garcia shouts from the back row,
”
Ban that right-wing trash from the newspaper
…
”
People seem to want to imagine their world, or a city for that
matter, where they are right, where there is ONE voice, One word,
One thought.
Dear Editor,
Daniel Garcia shouts from the back row, “Ban that right-wing trash from the newspaper …”
People seem to want to imagine their world, or a city for that matter, where they are right, where there is ONE voice, One word, One thought. Tempers flare when different opinions come into play. Colorful descriptions and buzzwords abound as veiled, and not, insults are thrown across the opinion page. Do we keep score? Do we really want there to be nothing but our opinion?
Some regular contributors, myself included, occasionally fall victim to “spewing.” To ban an idea or set of thoughts? Banishment is a form of exile. Banishment is merely a tool to hide that which you most fear. Banishment fuels the erosion of our social fabric. Banning of ideas or thoughts hastens the already rapid destruction of civilized discourse. As long as we can see the sharp curve in the road, we can avoid it. It is when the fog rolls in that we are most vulnerable. Garcia and others like him wishing to ban Zappa’s ranting should welcome his “spew.” As long as we see and hear it, we can avoid it or deal with it.
Mr. Garcia, and anyone else who may cast a net on discourse hoping to “catch” what it is they feel is “bad” might rethink the call for a ban, however, and imagine riding a teeter-totter … alone. Without Aristotle’s ideas of motion, Newton might not have had the inspiration to prove them wrong and right the study of physics from two millennia of failed theory. Even the Buddhists welcomed differing opinions, hence the concept of Ying and Yang. As a people we can only grow when our minds are open and our hearts true.
That “trash” Garcia wants banned? It’s not right, on the right, to the right, of the right, around the right, or partly right, it is merely the other left.
Benjamin Anderson, Gilroy
