Let's Go to the Mall, or: A Trip to the Bookstore w/Kids
Brief Notes from the Frontiers of the Woke Revolution as the War on Reality Intensifies
So, this just happened—we took the kids (aged 9 and 6, respectively) to the bookstore today. Upon entering the children’s section, we saw the following title:
You know, parenting is hard enough these days (I’m not complaining, mind you), with all the crap flying your way.
But this all-out assault on reality is too absurd.
Also, do note that there’s no shortage of ‘fantasy’ stuff, ranging from dragons to monsters to mermaids and unicorns. Many of these involve ‘minorities’, often of the non-straight kind (see above), but what used to be considered ‘normal’ and ‘age-appropriate’ until a few years ago is now: gone from ‘regular’ stores, libraries, and the like.
‘Snow White’ is now played by a ‘person of colour’ (oh, the irony), assisted by a gang of politically correctly casted dwarves, eh, adults (presumably).
Pro tip to fellow parents: cancel Netflix and other streaming services; don’t leave your kids unattended in libraries and bookstores—no-one knows what they’re going to ‘discover’ unwittingly.
The backlash is building, and when it comes, it won’t be pretty (again, I’m not advocating for it, I’m merely observing what, at this point, will be inevitable).
Buckle up, it’s going to be a rough ride.
Childrens' books for 279 NOK = 25 EUR? That alone is insane.
Kids' books written or compiled before the 1970s is the solution. Hit the old books shops, ask at the local library if they care to donate or sell old books that have been cleared, swedish libraries does the latter and it's a goldmine. Found a copy of Heine's collected articles, the ones he wrote in Paris, for 1:-.
Encourage other parents to do the same, trawl the net (weird phrase since a net is what you trawl with!) for old story-books. You can probably find copies of the swedish series "Bland tomtar och troll" (Among tomtar and trolls) which has been published since 1907, the language is close enough to norwegian anyway, especially in the older ones before "anglification" set in.
Fleamarkets, asking around among co-workers and neighbours, local school libraries maybe?
My brother's eldest (8 year old boy) was introduced to classic tales last year because brother asked me if I had the time to swing by the library to pick up some storybooks before they werecoming to visit. Not one book written or published after 1970. This year, he mentioned that ever since then the boy rejects modern "children's literature" as boring and pointless. After having been lent some swedish classics, so does my brother too nowadays.
So get hunting! Every old book saved is one less missing fragment of our cultural history!