Many people know that public book burnings
are a sign of a democracy in a state of distress,
the sign of imminent deportations, and worse.
But there is a stage well beyond that,
where citizens have to burn books in private:
the ideas in them have become heretical and dangerous.
If aired anywhere by citizens,
these ideas would get their adherents arrested and tortured.
Still, I would rather have it that some ideas are still dangerous:
the most dangerous state is when the majority have no thought at all.
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