This is atrocious.
The Odyssey has long been one of my favorite stories, ever since I first read the 'Adventures of Ulysses' translation of it by Bernard Evslin as part of a class unit when I was in the sixth grade.
I can still remember when our class was divided into groups, with each group having to create a picture showing a scene from the story; My group got the "Scylla and Charybdis" segment, and I had a ball making Scylla look as ugly and scary as possible!
It's a great adventure story with loads of symbolism and commentary, plus well- developed and interesting characters.
"The undaunted spirt of Odysseus, the threats to his return and the skills needed to overcome those threats become models for subsequent masterpieces, from James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Constantine Cavafy’s “Ithaca” to Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows” and the Coen brothers’ film “O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
I can just imagine some effeminate SJW with a man- bun going through those titles and putting them on a list of what he should push to have "Cancelled" next for some petty, asinine reason ("'The Wind in the Willows'... Let's see, Mr. Toad starts by riding in a horse- drawn cart, and then decides to get a motorcar. So, right away this book promotes animal enslavement and the use of fossil- fuel- powered vehicles that cause climate change! I bet this book's publication was funded by (GASP) BIG OIL! So, THAT's a big no, and needs to be banned. 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' No LGBTQ+ representation at all, portrays Christians in a positive light, no diversity in its soundtrack, promotes the idea of a heteronormative family, AND has a scene with a KKK rally? AAAAAAAAAAAH! TRIGGERED! Not only should this be completely banned and not available to be seen by anyone, but everyone involved in making it should be arrested for committing a hate crime! I've got to tell everyone on Twitter about this!").
"Our current cultural crisis is not from reading too much, but from not reading much of anything at all. Most of the people who deface monuments and wreck statues know almost nothing about the targets of their furor."
Heck, most of the people who deface monuments and wreck statues probably can't even read at more than maybe a second- grade level, and think books are for "Old white people."