If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas—and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do—it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.
Someday soon an institution will emerge that has not been for quite some time, a heavenly(symbolic) patriarch that offers us authority not by threat of penalty but by love as though a father, having authority placed upon this entity, this school, this “thing”. My goals are through education and awakening the genius within man, that the idiots have courage to learn and be authentic and the malevolent know fear.
Someday soon the board will flip and the other side will be in power, don’t fall victim to delusions of the game, transcend it all entirely.
Well, you're a librarian! Nice work -- yes, that's it. I did look up Amazon to find a few for eleven bucks or so; one was, indeed, to be found at a Salvation Army store -- but free is better; Many Thanks.
Yeah, 1984'ed or "market censored" for lack of interest.
I've only recently discovered Substack -- and, well, it's too good to be left alone.
Concerning libraries, when it came to any commentary on v*cines, I couldn't find any, even by interlibrary loan. Before the pandemic, it was more of a market model of censorship -- if the book didn't get checked out often enough, it was taken off the shelves.
Wow, I simply cannot believe a post this shimmering, brilliant, well-argued, AND humorous, has only seven comments. What's that I smell? Is it the burnt toast of shadow banning? This post expresses exactly what so many of us have felt in our bones about the past 3+ years. And yet, our friends continue to genuflect before the sacred cows of mainstream media like the oh so sad Atlantic. WHY WHY WHY?? we scream, how can you be so freakin' DIM? Thank you, Theodore Atkinson, for this wonderful public service.
Someday soon an institution will emerge that has not been for quite some time, a heavenly(symbolic) patriarch that offers us authority not by threat of penalty but by love as though a father, having authority placed upon this entity, this school, this “thing”. My goals are through education and awakening the genius within man, that the idiots have courage to learn and be authentic and the malevolent know fear.
Someday soon the board will flip and the other side will be in power, don’t fall victim to delusions of the game, transcend it all entirely.
Well, you're a librarian! Nice work -- yes, that's it. I did look up Amazon to find a few for eleven bucks or so; one was, indeed, to be found at a Salvation Army store -- but free is better; Many Thanks.
Yeah, 1984'ed or "market censored" for lack of interest.
I've only recently discovered Substack -- and, well, it's too good to be left alone.
Concerning libraries, when it came to any commentary on v*cines, I couldn't find any, even by interlibrary loan. Before the pandemic, it was more of a market model of censorship -- if the book didn't get checked out often enough, it was taken off the shelves.
Wow, I simply cannot believe a post this shimmering, brilliant, well-argued, AND humorous, has only seven comments. What's that I smell? Is it the burnt toast of shadow banning? This post expresses exactly what so many of us have felt in our bones about the past 3+ years. And yet, our friends continue to genuflect before the sacred cows of mainstream media like the oh so sad Atlantic. WHY WHY WHY?? we scream, how can you be so freakin' DIM? Thank you, Theodore Atkinson, for this wonderful public service.
Oh my brother - root shells are dangerous - `sudo` will save you much grief.
Thanks Theodore, we'll done!
I especially liked;
"Pro-censors are either idiots or malignant assholes."