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QUESTION: So how can we understand what PUBLISHING TODAY has become?
ANSWER: Imagine the PUBLISHING INDUSTRY TODAY as akin to NAZI GERMANY from the years 1933 to 1944, and then open your eyes to today’s BOTTOM-LINE-DRIVEN CORPORATE-CONGLOMERATES goose-stepping across the bestseller lists… Then imagine if you will, that the books that are allowed to be published are all by avowed loyal National Socialists and Vichy collaborators who use their malleable skills and Chameleon-like allegiances to write only about topics acceptable to the Reich: such as books by celebrities, celebrity politicians, celebrity chefs, celebrity prostitutes and porn stars, celebrity criminals, celebrity sports figures, and celebrity rich people. And then there are the mystery thrillers, crime thrillers, and sex thrillers! And then of course, there are the Hallowed Books, the ones accepted by the Reichminister of Propaganda herself, Oprah Winfrey, but we can only speak of those in a whisper. (You never know who’s listening!)
QUESTION: But what about LITERATURE?
ANSWER: LITERATURE?
QUESTION: Yes! Books that actually have something to say...
ANSWER: I’m not sure I like your tone. So these books by all of our loyal authors, are they not good enough for you?
QUESTION: Yes, but…I’m talking about REAL LITERATURE…
ANSWER: ……
QUESTION: Writing that says something! Something important! That might even dare to question the Reich itself!
ANSWER: Ahhh, you mean “Jüdische Bücher”! Jewish Books!
QUESTION: Jewish books?
ANSWER: Ja, so you are one of them… I suspected as much!
QUESTION: What?!
At that the Reich’s representative pressed a button on his desk, and moments later four SS men came in and took this particular annoying writer away. “But, I’m not even Jewish!” he said, as the SS men led him out the door.
