We once read a book called "Feed" in high school - a ham fisted anti-capitalist book. Wherein citizens are 100% connected to an internet like service that only exists to sell them products. 90% of the class couldnt get it. Even when the teacher sat down and explained the entire plot of the book they still couldnt wrap their head around it.

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The Eddings married in 1962. They adopted a son in 1966 and a daughter several years later. In 1969, alerted by neighbours to the sounds of mistreatment at their South Dakota property, police arrived to find the adopted son locked in a cage in a dirty basement (the basement shared with several animals) and being beaten by his parents with a belt. The Eddings were arrested and the children removed into protective custody (subsequently their adoption of the children was revoked). During the subsequent trial, exacting details of physical and emotional abuse emerged, with the

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    children imprisoned in the cage for the slightest perceived disobedience and corporal punishment being regularly administered. Both children were traumatised by their experiences Newspaper from the arrest: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33401936/david-eddings/ (Cage part can be found right above the subheading No Light near the top middle):::

    Holy fuck :homer-bye:

    Glad I have never actually purchased any of his books & used the library.

    • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, it's bad. Good job on digging up the newspaper, hadn't seen that before! Maybe add a content warning since you are describing details of child abuse.