IN “The Spooky Side of Roald Dahl,” the writer Miri, whom I am not otherwise familiar with, raises concerns about the famous author I had never considered before, including the possibility that he worked for British intelligence. His sudden rise to popularity and the heavy promotion of his books don’t seem organic, but there are other strange details of his life.
The same concerns, I think, could be raised with regard to J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, who supposedly rose to instant fame on the merit of her books alone.
Regardless of the background of these two authors, Miri offers some salutary warnings to parents:
It is generally regarded as a universal truth that, when one is a child, to spend too much time watching TV is Very Bad, but to spend a lot of time reading books is Very Good.
It is therefore the case that many parents, who will scrutinise and carefully control the content their children watch on television, won’t apply the same rigour to analysing books, simply assuming that if the tome in question is listed as age-appropriate, there can’t be anything too troubling or traumatic between the covers.
Certainly not any ruthless social engineering designed to profoundly psychologically scar and vigorously emphasise some of the most nefarious elite agendas in history…
Just because it’s a book doesn’t mean it’s good, especially now that librarians, as has so often been mentioned here before, are products of intense political propaganda themselves.
