Gilbert Highet on Censorship, 1954
A collage of his words
An erasure/collage of “External Hindrances,” Part Two, Chapter Three of Man’s Unconquerable Mind (Columbia University Press, 1954) by Gilbert Highet (1906–1978).
‘Man’s Unconquerable Mind’: External Hindrances
At first, I’m intrigued.
Cave man painting a running stag? Standards of good and evil? Transmuted into living flames? I’m in.
Then it gets a little weird.
The author is just very intense and specific about whatever he’s talking about.
Oh, the author is defending censorship.
No one will agree on exactly how to what to do about material that corrupts the youth, he says, but we can’t just continue allowing the free distribution of information about sex, violence, and drugs.