Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by throw10123213 on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:39PM (#26306350)

Communism was also like this. People has the public persona, the party tasks, things they had to do and say.

Then they went home and listened to Radio Free Europe and talked with select people what they really had on their mind or used coded language to transmit messages.

What I hope this achieves is a parallel society and when it's big enough there will be some public battles.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:44PM (#26306436)

This. And you only spoke political jokes to really close friends.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by inglor_cz on Monday March 01, 2021 @02:56PM (#26307529)

I was 11 when Communism fell in my country.

By that time, kids knew perfectly well what to say in school, what to say among close friends and who of their colleagues was a snitch.

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Re:Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring ... by d1zzy on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:18PM (#26309226)

It was chilling when before the first day of school may parents made it very clear I shouldn't tell anyone (especially not teachers) that they were listening to Radio Free Europe.

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