Amazon and LULU online retailers ‘punished’ Michael Walsh – not just by banning his best-selling history books but by summarily removing from their shopping basket his entire 70-plus range of collection of books; novels, user manuals, advice books.
Do you like being told what you can and cannot read? What happened to the maxim, ‘I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’
At first glance, it may seem an exaggeration to say that the West is today as authoritarian as it was in the Soviet Bloc. In Soviet-Occupied Europe one could lose one’s job and even one’s liberty for an unguarded comment.
It is reported that ‘organisations fighting for racial justice’ accuse Amazon book publishers of being distributors for ‘supremacist, racist and Nazi products’.
Never in history has writing a book, a novel or a life story been easier. At no time has the demand for books been greater or book publishing easier. ‘A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.’ – Richard Bach.
Many of the woes suffered by the Western nations can be attributed to the woeful ignorance of the general population – especially those born after 1980.
Mícheál Walsh: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) surmised, ‘every five years the people are given democracy. They then go to their ballot boxes and surrender democracy.’
MÍCHEÁL WALSH smiles as he recalls that early in life, he dreamed only of becoming a well-known novelist. Under no illusions, he knew he was unlikely to succeed without the drudge. Leslie Thomas, the author of the bestselling The Virgin Soldiers wallpapered his bedroom walls with publisher’s rejection slips.
MICHAEL WALSH EDITOR: Recently, I learnt of a donkey sanctuary that receives $3 million in donations every year. I then look at Europe Renaissance’s depleted bank account and I ask myself why I can’t play the ass too?
When historians pen the obituary of the West’s dying moments it will reveal that strategies adopted by the arrogant West backfired spectacularly. Many suicidal tactics will be covered in future news stories. For now, we focus on Cancel Culture relating to book and video publishing by Amazon online publishing.
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