Death by Kindle

Piss off Kindle!  You are just another attempt at death by technology.  If Amazon had its way in ten years no one would even remember what a book was.  And what's better no one will know documented history because it can be so easily rewritten digitally and sold as an e-book on a fucking Kindle.  Aside from the practical, which I'll get to, who the fuck wants to read a book on a screen?  Who wants another computer?  Don't we spend enough on time on them already?  What gives?  Physically, books are a critical part of our modern existence.  You can't replace paper, glue, art and the tangibility of it all.  "Oh, no, books are so heavy and hard to carry around, a Kindle is so much more convenient."  Buck up you pussy carrying a book is not a big deal.  That's like, "How did we survive as a human race before airbags?"  Well, we did so just deal.  You can't give someone a Kindle to read as a present or as an educational tool or as something to change their life.  I guess you could tell them to download it...  It's not in any way green either.  Paper comes from trees which (despite despicable worldwide logging practices) are a renewable resource and an integral link in human existence, that only argues the case for books even more.  Kindles are piles of plastic and metal and probably some toxic ass shit inside too.  Not much good for the environment there huh?  At least you could recycle a book should you not need it anymore.  Though I'd hope you would give it to Goodwill or something.

But what about censorship?  Yeah buddy, you can't censor a printed piece of paper clutched in someones hand.  Sure, you could censor subsequent editions of a publication but you cannot censor what is already physically written on a piece of paper.  You could destroy it but that would involve relieving that person of their piece of paper.  That also might involve killing that person and that might lead to revolution and well, that's a whole 'nother rabble.  Anyway, with digital media 'the man' or Amazon or whoever in any country could change the text of any book ever written.  How about that?  No more controversial, bold, establishment questioning, creative writing.  I'm sure  some books, maybe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, because it's so racey, or whatever else could be digitally banned only to be forgotten about completely in a few years.  Ever read We, Brave New World, 1984, Farenheit 451?  Only what they want us to read I suppose.  Well, fuck that and Fuck Kindle!  Kindling would be a more appropriate name.  I think it's be more constructive to burn it, inhale the fumes and write about your experience while high on Kindling.  Rabble-B

PS- Cheers to any author, like Sherman Alexie, who refuses to allow their books to be digitially published.  Also, if anyone wants to publish my rabbles in a weekly newsletter format or something like that let me know so I don't have to publish all this crap on the internet either.