Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Damned, Prohibited and Outcasts

Booty cultural heritage in Baghdad / Baghdad Library (Gervasio Sanchez)

find this photo accompanying an address, and credit refers to the library in Baghdad. However, revising the annexes of the book "Universal History of the Destruction of Books' by Fernando Báez (Editorial Debate, 2004) we find that this is indeed the Ruins of "Vinejnica, the National Library in Sarajevo"

Here we other photos and links on this superb library relentlessly destroyed August 26, 2002, during the siege of Sarajevo (Bosnia War)

photo of cellist Vedran Smailovic , often played for free at different funerals on the site although it used to be a specific target of the forces Serbian . It was taken during the 1992 war in Sarajevo National Library, partially destroyed. Mikhail Evstafiev Photo . (Source:

El_violonchelista_de_Sarajevo

Pictured playing Vedran Smailovic Sarajevo in 1992.

Links:

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Evstafiev-vedran-smailovic-sarajevo1992w.jpg

http://revistareplicante.com/literatura / test / other-world-where-decline-live /

Http://maldemer6.blogspot.com/2010/03/l-manana-del-26-de-agosto-de-1992-la.html

Father, forgive them for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34)

(He says they were the last words of Jesus, nailed to the Cruz 33, but a day like today born December 24, two millennia ago )

Men who burn books know what they do.

George Steiner (two millennia later) http://rincondelbibliotecario.blogspot.com/2008/06/historia-universal-de-la-destruccin-de.html

There is a long list of books, thanks to a kind incomprehensible, fantastic or miraculous immemorial have been spared the effort of mysterious characters, their destruction at all costs. The history of literature - since the discovery of the same boards of the poem of Gilgamesh, Apocryphal gospel of the Dead Sea, through treaties Algebra Persian Poet Omar Khayyam or map navigation Chinese admiral " Zheng He", which shows the American continent, and was visited by this navigator before the voyages of Columbus - teaches us that each stage of human development has had its own breed, his own elite curious individuals and other individuals so obsessed with power control.

And so, each time has been also his own literary inquisition committee, formed by an elite of self-proclaimed arbiters of aesthetics, ethics or politics, whose main characteristic has been, even today, the premise that the plurality of thought, diversity of ideas - basis of education, then as substance culture - makes it difficult to control the population.

map navigation Chinese admiral "Zheng He "

This sort of political taboo of the relevant classes for control of power, triggering fierce persecution against literature that can somehow be regarded as contrary to the aesthetic norms, ethics or policies imposed on the population, the so-called Faith, belief systems that the ruling elite cultural give as alms to the people. It is common for these sets of rules of thought, containing a synthesis of ideas, carefully structured to induce people to think in a precise manner, according to the needs of the elite in power in power. It is a historical fact that one of the first things that happens after the takeover of power by a new elite group, whether its repressive apparatus relentless persecutions against thinkers, writers, poets, philosophers, historians, analysts, booksellers and librarians, and of course, books ...

facade of the ruins of the Library of Baghdad

From there we know reviews of the innumerable attacks Library of Alexandria, from BC and during the early Middle Ages by R Omani, Egyptian Christians and Muslims to their ultimate destruction ... or find reviews of recent attacks on National Library in Baghdad, from the Age of the Mongols to the U.S. war against Iraq broke out in 1991. All pages of our history realize clear example of one of the greatest mysteries of the human race: A species that invests so much energy to discover how this universe, and is able to invest even more energy to avoid that this knowledge , are public property, free and free.

And this curious cultural trait of our species, obsessed with destroying the accumulated information books, collections or libraries . .. could be considered as a real aberration, if we compare a priori, to what is commonly known in our genetic chain, a truly vast library housed in each cell - that are counted in millions s- in each of the living things on our planet. However, we are filled cold in the body to remember that our bodies have their own mechanisms of control of information is constantly entering and continuing in our genetic memory, and discard and eliminate extraneous data to the body ... and, to our knowledge, the plurality of genetic information can lead to mutation, which is not nothing but something frowned upon for being different from what we know as the etymology of this term implies (Change)

books Baghdad library

After this slight review of reports of libraries, it seems that repression of the plurality of thought is an inescapable necessity in every age, as we noted at the beginning ... if you really need to know, this repression strange or different, has a true historical reason, moral or ethical, as proclaimed conservative sectors of our society. One wonders if it is true that each book burning, that every phase of library collections, and each supports prosecution of thought or thinkers, has a deeper reason that the taboo, the other, the strange or unknown. Or maybe as they say now, scholars of social sciences, that the destruction of books is the result of political interests.

As a gift to 2010, and to honor the spirit and the idea of \u200b\u200bfree books, hang a small selection of links to books and reminisce refer Libraries Books and condemned, banned and banished, and a modest selection of links to recent articles from the destruction of the library of Baghdad, to remind our readers follow in the tradition of the statement of our blog the dogma of the monks of the Abbey of St. Leibowitz in the science fiction novel by Walter R Miller

".. I Nspire by the works of Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man), and Walter R Miller (A Canticle for Leibowitz): We recommend that when you download a book of this blog: a) .-, keep a copy on a CD, Pendrive or in the disk of your computer b) .- Upload a copy of the book downloaded to a portal for the dissemination of free literature d) .- take a copy of information and documentation centers, e) .- Memorize text of the book. Let's help everyone to release the books ...."