Reading Materials

So, this week at the library, I check out a copy of Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Fredric Wertham, Ph.D, and when my mom sees it, she flips. 

She thinks it's some kind of old trashy romance novel that I shouldn't read. I try to explain to them that it's a sociological-psychological treatise on the effects of comic books on the minds of children, and all I get is a couple of snide remarks. They don't seem to understand that not everyone in this world has a dirty mind, that some of us are quite normal. In one sense of the word.

All that ever happens is I got shot down by some mass cultural delusion that all boys of my age are obsessed with everything vulgar and wrong with this world (the irony I now see). That we aren't people, we're pigs, we're effing swine, unclean and unfit for consumption. 

So, I ask you this, my reader: Is this a tragedy, or is it a farce?