One scene in The Mortal Storm<\/i> stood out to me, because it made me curious. It occurse one evening as the Nazis gather around a large fire to burn books.<\/p>\n
The two books that we see them incinerate are by Heinrich Heine and Albert Einstein. Each author was chosen for a specific reason.<\/p>\n
I understood immediately why Einstein was chosen. Science, being an objective observer of truth, is the natural enemy of fascists.<\/p>\n
For example, it is no coincidence that the current U.S. government is defunding science on a massive scale. Of course that is a direct attack on something that is truly<\/i> great about America — and a key source of our economic power in the World.<\/p>\n
But our current administration doesn’t care about any of that. It thinks more along the North Korean model: Keep your people poor and illiterate, and thereby maintain absolute control of the nation that you have ruined.<\/p>\n
But what about Heine? I spent quite a bit of time today reading about him, and I highly recommend that you do the same. A good starting point might be his Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among his many other accomplishments, Heine coined the phrase “Where books burn, so do people.” Of course such a man would need to be silenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One scene in The Mortal Storm stood out to me, because it made me curious. It occurse one evening as the Nazis gather around a large fire to burn books. The two books that we see them incinerate are by Heinrich Heine and Albert Einstein. Each author was chosen for a specific reason. I understood … Continue reading “Book burning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27686,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27685\/revisions\/27686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}