TO BE CENSORED

Censorship: The reaction of the ignorant to freedom.

So listen up ’cause you can’t say nothin’. You shut me down with a push of your button.

‘Cause what you see you might not get.

-Beastie Boys, Sabotage, 1994

We’re talking about words. And I don’t believe there is any word that needs to be suppressed.

-Frank Zappa, 1986

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.

Imagine a world of silence where any sound loud enough or long enough to harbor a deadly poem would be banned. A world where people are afraid to listen, afraid they’ll hear something behind the din of traffic. Some toxic words buried in the loud music playing next door. Imagine a higher and higher resistance to language. No one talks because no one dares to listen. The deaf shall inherit the earth.

And the illiterate.

-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby, 2003

This blog is an online companion to TCI’s 2010 production, Censored. Members, fans, and anyone can follow along throughout the season with articles, videos, and other media associated with TCI’s vision for the show.

The content on this or any page, however, does not constitute official endorsements of views or opinions on any subject by TCI’s staff, members, endorsers, or its parent company. It is intended for purposes of entertainment, thought-provoking, and exposure to media that may craft the way TCI’s membership performs the show, and the way viewers interpret it.

Also check out the companion blog to the 2009 production Videotape at www.onyourvideotape.com.