My book collection includes over 3000 titles. You can't find 90% of these books in any library in the country. And for roughly 5%, there are perhaps one or two copies in random libraries around the country - typically at universities.
Virtually all books pointing to truth in one fashion or another on a wide variety of subjects are systemically barred or removed from the shelves of our "public" libraries. That should tell you something...
This is what I mean by them being gatekeepers. Libraries don't even try to cover different viewpoints. Collection Development used to attempt some balance. Just remember that for each book that we object to they have decided NOT to purchase material that would balance it, they only have so many of our dollars to spend. But it goes further than what you will or won't see on the shelves. The same people are in charge of the very classification schemes that label the materials. This way they can just eliminate whole swathes of information as irrelevant and you aren't able to get to it.
100% agreed. I'll see your "nefarious library administrators" and raise you this -> The prime directive of ALL of our mainstream institutions is to hide truth and promote falsehoods. It's their primary function. Doh!
It's a fun little rabbit holw journey to look into the people who are most prominent in the "rare/antique book" marketplace should you ever get curious. Their job is to purchase and shelve the many books from both our distant and recent past (pre 1900) that don't support the dominant narrative. They've got it all locked up, as with all our other large institutions.
I've come to the conclusion that any book written after 1930 is quite likely worthless. Sure, there are always exceptions, but this is my general rule of thumb. On top of that, the authors prior to this period were exponentially better and clearer writers IMHO.
Agreed. Think on this. All those months that OUR public libraries were closed to the public did you notice that all the library staff was still employed? Gee, wonder what they were doing all of that time? Perhaps weeding the collections of all undesirable literature??? At our public library, when it re-opened is when staff started retiring and quitting. Seems they didn't want to wait on patrons anymore.
My book collection includes over 3000 titles. You can't find 90% of these books in any library in the country. And for roughly 5%, there are perhaps one or two copies in random libraries around the country - typically at universities.
Virtually all books pointing to truth in one fashion or another on a wide variety of subjects are systemically barred or removed from the shelves of our "public" libraries. That should tell you something...
This is what I mean by them being gatekeepers. Libraries don't even try to cover different viewpoints. Collection Development used to attempt some balance. Just remember that for each book that we object to they have decided NOT to purchase material that would balance it, they only have so many of our dollars to spend. But it goes further than what you will or won't see on the shelves. The same people are in charge of the very classification schemes that label the materials. This way they can just eliminate whole swathes of information as irrelevant and you aren't able to get to it.
100% agreed. I'll see your "nefarious library administrators" and raise you this -> The prime directive of ALL of our mainstream institutions is to hide truth and promote falsehoods. It's their primary function. Doh!
It's a fun little rabbit holw journey to look into the people who are most prominent in the "rare/antique book" marketplace should you ever get curious. Their job is to purchase and shelve the many books from both our distant and recent past (pre 1900) that don't support the dominant narrative. They've got it all locked up, as with all our other large institutions.
I've come to the conclusion that any book written after 1930 is quite likely worthless. Sure, there are always exceptions, but this is my general rule of thumb. On top of that, the authors prior to this period were exponentially better and clearer writers IMHO.
Things that make you go hmmmmm?
Agreed. Think on this. All those months that OUR public libraries were closed to the public did you notice that all the library staff was still employed? Gee, wonder what they were doing all of that time? Perhaps weeding the collections of all undesirable literature??? At our public library, when it re-opened is when staff started retiring and quitting. Seems they didn't want to wait on patrons anymore.
No doubt they snuffed out some significant titles in that window of time.