A woke

Books and Triggers

Dr dear Dr: Is there some truth in the rumour that Cambridge University is nowadays putting trigger warnings on certain books as a gesture of love and succour to the Woke audience among its student populations? Is the Christian Policy, Live and let live?

Awoke response - Probably many books in the modern world should carry trigger warnings lest they alarm and shock and offend. Allow me to explain:

In the ancient worlde, before the year 2001, books were a commonality, they were the ordinary stuff of ordinary lives, and nobody much passed remarks at them, since they existed and their existence was not contested in any contrarian manner. So a number of points might be made.

- In a prudent world many mod books might carry trigger warnings;

- The whole experience of book is now powerful and emotionally draining since the rise of the phenomenon of web-reading;

- But book reading en masse, as a wide and broad past-time almost died in 2000;

- This Death of the Book like the Death of Grass in the famous novel was only resolved if not postponed by the appearance of the Septologies of Harry Potter around 2001;

- It is the whole experience of the Book that now dominates young minds according to the following schemas:

   * The total immersion of self into the story;

   * The immersion of self into one or other of the characters within;

   * The Total absorption of the story itself;

   * The development of the plot in the story;

   * The psychological development of the characters in the story;

   * The overall evolution of the happy ending of the classical victorian novel.

- So all of the above elements in the absence of the internet and all of its superficialities makes a commonality, but in the age of the world wide web, intensifies the experience of novel a hundred fold. Hence the need for trigger warnings on books in the new era post-web. Moreover there is a psychology need for trigger warnings since the emergence of the so-called Babes in the Wood phenomenon in CBT psychology. his occurs when two individuals begin reading a book or a novel a la the Potter Corpus in tandem and they appear in a kind of social wood in their minds, pursued by contrarian forces of oppression and derision and are then hunted down into that wood, where they meet each other and establish an irrevocable bond between them, this is the “Babes in the Wood” experience, and it is more common than people imagine in the modern Anti-book era of the web. So because of the intensity then of the modern book experience, trigger warnings are more than appropriate in our timeframe. Christians understand the experience since many Christians have been through the Babes in the Wood psychology format as the root genesis-punkt of many of their Christian friendships, as occurs in their own experiences of persecution at the hands of an unfeeling secular state. The experience is well recorded in the Song "All Too Well" by Taylor.