As a people, we love our entertainment as it allows us to escape our lives for a brief time and pretend we’re someone or something else. We can travel to other time periods, other worlds, and even other dimensions.
There’s no limit to where we can go and what lives we can lead through movies, books, and other media.
But things change over time. We learn and grow and what used to be common or cutting edge isn’t anymore.
The first thing we often hear as a way to counter this is to “update” something either through a remake or rebooting the series whether it’s books or movies. But it’s also a dangerous slop because sometimes that’s not enough.
Banning books
For decades there’s been a cry to ban certain books do to the language and visuals included in them. Classics like Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer are two of the more prominent examples due to the use of language that was prevalent of that era.
Recently, the Diary of Anne Frank has come under fire for various images included that was part of her day to day life while she and her family hid away from Nazis looking to gather up Jews to send them to camps and murder them.
It’s a first hand account of what it was like for a family to try to live as normal as possible while also having the fear of being discovered hanging over their heads.
The reason for people wanting it banned has to do with the fact she was going through adolescence at the time and talked about various parts of her body.
These efforts go back years before the graphic novel version came out and caused a stir.
Changing the media
More than banning books, many have argued over the need to change what the books say to protect modern day sensibilities.
And with many being transferred to digital it makes it far easier to click and erase something someone finds offensive.
It’s for this reason that having physical media is needed, especially older books that depict how life was during certain times before history was erased or white washed to fit a comfortable narrative.
Whether it’s music, movies, TV shows, or print media, it’s important that we keep these in their original form so we can have a better understanding of what the mindset was like at another time.
History isn’t there to make us feel warm and comfortable; it’s there to inform, frighten, and intrigue us so we learn and don’t repeat the same mistakes.
What’s your favorite physical media you’ve kept? Let us know in the comments below.
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